From: mccauley@gmx.net
Date: Fri Dec 09 2005 - 06:56:51 EST
On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 11:11:45 +0100
rob.dijkshoorn@planet.nl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Seems to me you are mixing up osi-layer functionality.
>
> A MAC-address is a layer 2 (physical) address. This address only has
> significance on the local broadcast domain. In ip-terms, your local subnet.
> Ping is a layer 4 protocol, used to check end-to-end connectivity
> between ip-adresses. You can't use ping to ping a mac-address, since the
> protocol underlying ping (ICMP) won't understand it.
I can't find it now, but THERE IS a ethernet "ping" and is a standard
protocol , only some old NIC support it , but it does exist.
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