Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ukma!rutgers!ucla-cs!admin.cognet.ucla.edu!casey
From: casey@admin.cognet.ucla.edu (Casey Leedom)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: ICMP's & IP src addrs
Message-ID: <16145@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Date: 23 Sep 88 08:55:46 GMT
References: <23635@hi.unm.edu> <8809211159.AA06217@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU
Reply-To: casey@cs.ucla.edu (Casey Leedom)
Organization: UCLA
Lines: 13

In article <8809211159.AA06217@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> tmallory@PARK-STREET.BBN.COM writes:
> [Re: pinging to a broadcast address]
>   If a large percentage of the replying hosts have to ARP for the sending
> host's hardware address, then that's a lot of ARP requests for everyone
> to process.

  Hhmmm, you mean your hosts receive a packet on their ethernets and
don't record the mapping of source ethernet and IP addresses in their ARP
caches?  Doesn't sound like a very good idea to me.  I'd say there's
probably a pretty good chance you're going to have to send a packet back
to any host you receive one from ...

Casey