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[James Linder]

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> On 5 Sep 2018, at 10:01 pm, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:
> 
> On Sep 4, 2018, at 9:46 PM, James Linder <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:
>>> On 5 Sep 2018, at 4:45 am, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:
>>> On Sep 4, 2018, at 4:39 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>>>> It looks like he's showing us that nmap on his Linux machine found 11 hosts while on his Mac it only found 6 hosts.
>>> 
>>> maybe? and there a lots of reasons why that might be the case.
>> 
>> Just to be more exact the linux machine is a vm on my mac with a bridged network.
>> Daniel what can the ‘lots of reasons’ be?
> 
> I can think of many, but it's probably not going to be helpful for you to enumerate the possible issues as the start of determining what's happening.
> 
> I would probably start with seeing if I can ping all the hosts I expect to be able to ping from both the linux VM and from the Mac.

Daniel thanks. Yup ofcourse I can ping every host, it is a bridged VM. Stephen’s explanation seems very likely. “the the kernel limits ICMP rate"
Thanks Steven.

James