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Education => Homework Help => Topic started by: networkloser on November 06, 2023, 01:16:23 AM

Title: An interesting homework problem
Post by: networkloser on November 06, 2023, 01:16:23 AM
This is from douglas comer's internetworking with tcp/ip. Since this is just for learning purposes, I expect an answer that helps me to simulate this in a local programming language/network and solve it programmatically or mathematically.

Here's the question:

Consider an ethernet that has one conventional host, H and 12 routers connected to it. Find a single(slightly illegal) frame carrying an IP packet that when sent by host H causes H to receive exactly 24 packets.

TBH I don't really understand the question.

The context is ICMP.
Title: Re: An interesting homework problem
Post by: icecream-guy on November 06, 2023, 05:18:10 AM
ping the broadcast network address?
Title: Re: An interesting homework problem
Post by: networkloser on November 06, 2023, 06:10:42 AM
why'd it show 24 icmp?
Title: Re: An interesting homework problem
Post by: deanwebb on November 06, 2023, 04:00:52 PM
ping x.x.x.x -n 24

The -n switch will specify a number of packets to send.