Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Hubs vs Switches

From: Jack Jackson <jack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:09:51 -0700

At 01:37 PM 10/4/2006, Usman Qureshi wrote:

I have a questions regarding ICMP packets traversing through Hubs and
Switches.  If connected on a Hub I ping the broadcast address

(<http://192.168.0.255>192.168.0.255) from a host machine (<http://192.168.0.100>192.168.0.100) I get a response

from the address <http://192.168.0.1>192.168.0.1 with destination address as

<http://192.168.0.100>192.168.0.100. How is this possible? I do not have machine with the

The capture you sent shows 192.168.0.104 sending an ARP for 192.168.0.105, then sending pings to 192.168.0.105. I don't see how that relates to your question.