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Network address and broadcast address
cambei
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Okay, so from everything I have read in theory, pinging the network address would NOT work like pinging a broadcast address.
However, in my home CCNA lab and also at my work in the staff co-lo server room, pinging the network address works just like a broadcast (see below).
The below example is a /27 with network address of 192.168.0.0 and broadcast of 192.168.0.31.
I am just wondering if this is newer implementations or certain companies just not following standards properly or is this what is supposed to happen??
However, in my home CCNA lab and also at my work in the staff co-lo server room, pinging the network address works just like a broadcast (see below).
The below example is a /27 with network address of 192.168.0.0 and broadcast of 192.168.0.31.
ny#ping 192.168.0.0 Type escape sequence to abort. Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 192.168.0.0, timeout is 2 seconds: Reply to request 0 from 192.168.0.30, 4 ms Reply to request 0 from 192.168.0.1, 12 ms Reply to request 1 from 192.168.0.1, 4 ms Reply to request 1 from 192.168.0.30, 4 ms Reply to request 2 from 192.168.0.1, 4 ms Reply to request 2 from 192.168.0.30, 4 ms Reply to request 3 from 192.168.0.1, 4 ms Reply to request 3 from 192.168.0.30, 4 ms Reply to request 4 from 192.168.0.1, 4 ms Reply to request 4 from 192.168.0.30, 4 ms ny#ping 192.168.0.31 Type escape sequence to abort. Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 192.168.0.31, timeout is 2 seconds: Reply to request 0 from 192.168.0.1, 4 ms Reply to request 0 from 192.168.0.30, 4 ms Reply to request 1 from 192.168.0.1, 4 ms Reply to request 1 from 192.168.0.30, 4 ms Reply to request 2 from 192.168.0.1, 4 ms Reply to request 2 from 192.168.0.30, 4 ms Reply to request 3 from 192.168.0.1, 4 ms Reply to request 3 from 192.168.0.30, 4 ms Reply to request 4 from 192.168.0.1, 4 ms Reply to request 4 from 192.168.0.30, 4 ms ny#
I am just wondering if this is newer implementations or certain companies just not following standards properly or is this what is supposed to happen??