[CLUG] udp broadcast packets

[David Dorgan]

Quoting Kevin O'Riordan (k_oriordan at hotmail.com):
> Is there any way to test if udp broadcast packets are reaching machines in 
> a subnet? Have a program that's sending them out, but it doesn't look like 
> they are getting anywhere.

Hard, but if you want to check in general
ping -b 192.168.0.255 for example, the point of udp is
that you don't get a reply, so the ping should show
any machines alive, which should get the packets,
or else run tcpdump on the remote machine (haha, don't
do this via ssh ;p).

David.