Broadcast ping

A broadcast ping can be described as a request "Anybody who hears this, please respond back". The problem is that you can configure computers to ignore these requests.

To tell your computer to answer on broadcast pings, open a console and issue:

To verify if your computer is set to answer on broadcast pings, issue:

means it is set to answer broadcast pings.

To perform a broadcast ping,

• Find out the broadcast address of the network where you want to broadcast

• ping the broadcast IP

Broadcast ping does not work?

try nmap like this:

MTU

The m aximum t ransfer u nit determines how big network packets can be. It can be set on the computer and on the network switch. The biggest packets that will be able to travers the internet are 1500 bytes in size. Jumbo-Frames are typically 9000 bytes of size. A good explanation can be found at http://www.dslreports.com/faq/695. Note that