How can I send packets to 255.255.255.255 from the command line?

Ryan Stone rysto32 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 18 19:29:46 UTC 2016


I want to test a change to broadcast packet handling and I want to confirm
that 255.255.255.255 is still handled correctly. Are there any command-line
tools in FreeBSD that can send to the broadcast address?  ping
255.255.255.255 does not work correctly, unfortunately.


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