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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 23:36:22 +0000
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Subject: Re: [9fans] bug or feature ?  --- ip/ping -6
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> It is not a common factor if you ping broadcast.

Yep, fair point.

I admit I have never done a ping broadcast.

I did hear a story of somone who (in the early days of ethernet)
built a ping broadcast packet, with the source address of the broadcast address.

This resulted in the mother of all packet storms.

Maybe apocryphal, but a nice story none the less.

-Steve