How can I send packets to 255.255.255.255 from the command line?

[Ryan Stone]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 4:48 PM, Paul A. Procacci <pprocacci at datapipe.com>
wrote:

> You should be able to ping the local subnet.
> Alternatively you can use net/arping.
>
> ~Paul
>

I'm specifically looking to test the handling of 255.255.255.255, so a
local broadcast address is out.  Unfortunately, arping doesn't seem to do
the right thing on FreeBSD.  It manages to get the kernel to try arp'ing
for 255.255.255.255.