Weird network setup?

[Brian Furious]

Hello I have noticed something weird at the network where I work. I'll attach two screens of what's going.

 

Basically I am able to scan 192.168.0.0 and 192.168.0.255 where they supposed to be the network and broadcast.

 

The network is 192.168.0.0/24 so there's something wrong for sure. I am not the administrator of the network and I cannot do anything, however I wanted to know some suggestions of what's going on.

 

I noticed lately that the "255" shows up as a random device on the network. Is this normal? 

 

P.S There exist another network "192.168.1.0/24" which results to have the same issue

 

 

 

 

When I try to tracert a netowork that doesn't exist it loops?

 

 

[mynameisjuan]

.255 is the broadcast address. When that address is pinged EVERYTHING responds because this is the service responsible for contacting discovering devices. Its why its so useful pinging the broadcast then running arp -a to see all the devices.

 

I guarantee if you compare the MAC of that in the first screen shot its going to match the same MAC as .85. Its all normal. 

[Brian Furious]

1 hour ago, mynameisjuan said:

.255 is the broadcast address. When that address is pinged EVERYTHING responds because this is the service responsible for contacting discovering devices. Its why its so useful pinging the broadcast then running arp -a to see all the devices.

 

I guarantee if you compare the MAC of that in the first screen shot its going to match the same MAC as .85. Its all normal. 

Two different subs? Why should it match as .85 ?

 

On 192.168.0.0 and 192.168.1.0 I ping a router. That is something wrong with it