Re: Ping Broadcast address Cisco Nexus /NX-OS

correction- I meant to say 192.168.1.255

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From: David Rothera <david.rothera_at_gmail.com>
To: Jawed Lashari
<jlashari_at_yahoo.com>
Cc: marc edwards <renorider_at_gmail.com>;
"ccielab_at_groupstudy.com" <ccielab_at_groupstudy.com>
Sent: Monday, 1 April 2013,
3:48
Subject: Re: Ping Broadcast address Cisco Nexus /NX-OS
 
For the moment I
would put it down as a platform limitation as Marc said.

Regards

David
Rothera
CCIE #38338
Sent from my iPhone
Please excuse any mistakes and
brevity.

On 1 Apr 2013, at 01:24, Jawed Lashari <jlashari_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Lets say you have subnet 192.168.1.0/24
>
> IOS- ping 192.168.1.0 or
>
192.168.1.254 and you will get reply from valid hosts.
>
> NX-OS- I have
tired
> but it is not working.
>
>
> ________________________________
>
From: marc edwards
> <renorider_at_gmail.com>
> To: Jawed Lashari
<jlashari_at_yahoo.com>
> Cc:
> "ccielab_at_groupstudy.com"
<ccielab_at_groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Sunday, 31 March
> 2013, 19:18
> Subject:
Re: Ping Broadcast address Cisco Nexus /NX-OS
> Interesting:
>
>
usscswnexus01-SCCORE# ping 255.255.255.255 vrf default
> % Bad IP
> address
>
>
> Great question. I will remember to bring this question to Cisco
>
directly.
>
> NX-OS still new for layer 3 (so to speak)
>
> Just remember
the saying
> "Eventually, hardware will fail. Conversely...
> Eventually
software will work"
> Regards,
>
> Marc Edwards
> CCIE #38259 R&S
>
> Marc
Edwards
> CCIE #38259
>
>
> On Sun, Mar
> 31, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Jawed Lashari
<jlashari_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> So if we
> ping broadcast or network
address, we get reply from all valid
>> hosts
>> in
> that subnet.
>> How can
we do this in Cisco Nexus/ NX-OS? It seems like that
> they do not have this
option for NX-OS.
>>
>> /Thanks
>>
>>
>> Blogs and organic
> groups at
http://www.ccie.net
>
Received on Mon Apr 01 2013 - 06:03:16 ART