Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!Cs.Ucl.AC.UK!murayama From: murayama@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK (Yuko Murayama, +44-1-387-7050 ext.3695) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: broadcast pings Message-ID: <8809261000.AA16628@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 22 Sep 88 16:45:35 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 10 I, for one, vote for broadcast/multicast ping. Broadcast ping is a totally different concept from ping with a unicast address in the sense that you don't have to know what objects are there. It is very tempting to use it for configuration detection. You can find out not only active objects but also what shouldn't exist. Yuko