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From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
To: Stephen Clark <sclark46@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD eats 169.254.x.x addressed packets
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On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 01:45:59PM -0400, Stephen Clark wrote:
> Why does FreeBSD 6.3 eat 169.254.x.x addressed packet when
> 4.9 didn't?

The following output would help:

- ifconfig -a
- netstat -rn
- Contents of /etc/rc.conf

Also, be aware that RELENG_6 is to be EOL'd at the end of this year:
http://security.freebsd.org/

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