Why there is no reply to ping to musticast address "224.0.0.1"?

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Issue

  • Why there is no reply to ping to musticast address "224.0.0.1"?

  • Why system ignores ICMP echo requests to broadcast address on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5?

  • From on another host which in the same multicst group , ping to 224.0.0.1  does NOT show the virtual Interface IP(bond0:1).

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5

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