When I try to ping a broadcast address on my local network, it displays ICMP responses from only 3 hosts each time, although there are many hosts connected to the local network.
For broadcast address I did
$ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1b:38:09:0b:26
inet addr:172.30.120.152 Bcast:172.30.127.255 Mask:255.255.248.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21b:38ff:fe09:b26/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:831096 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:13022 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:66620362 (66.6 MB) TX bytes:3099025 (3.0 MB)
Interrupt:21 Base address:0x2000
I used Bcast addr 172.30.127.255 to ping all ...
$ping -b 172.30.127.255
WARNING: pinging broadcast address
PING 172.30.127.255 (172.30.127.255) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 172.30.120.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.809 ms
64 bytes from 172.30.120.62: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.06 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 172.30.120.50: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=3.97 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 172.30.120.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.364 ms
64 bytes from 172.30.120.62: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.412 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 172.30.120.50: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=1.48 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 172.30.120.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.452 ms
64 bytes from 172.30.120.62: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.506 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 172.30.120.50: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=1.64 ms (DUP!)
Why only 3 hosts respond to my ping. Is this bcast address given by ifconfig not the one to be used? I think that this may be the reason that I can’t perform a reinforced attack on the system on my local network. I introduced ICMP echo packets with a fake source address of my host friend and sent it to this broadcast address, and was disappointed that its bandwidth was not affected ...
Please explain ...