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Sometime Today, kishor bhagwat assembled some asciibets to say:
> I've been observing a phenomenon..please see if its ok, or there is a
> problem:
> I've two linux machines on an ethernet. One of them is 192.168.1.1, and
> the other is 1.2
[snip routing tables and ping routes]
I'm assuming that you are pinging from 1.2 because that's what it looks
like.
I can't be sure of this because I can't test it right now, but from what I
remember, I think this phenomenon is simply becaue you are pinging the
network and not an individual host.
Your machine sends out one ping packet with destination 192.168.1.0
That basically means it is sending it to the 192.168.1.0 network. It also
expects a single pong in response to its ping.
The problem is that ethernet is a broadcast network and every host on the
network receives all packets. They all think that it is addressed to them
and all reply to it. Your host is expecting a single pong but gets one
from each host on the network.
HTH and Hope it's somewhat correct.
Philip
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