Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 18:17:19 -0500 (EST) From: "David A. Panariti" <panariti@mediaone.net> To: julian@elischer.org Cc: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.5R and explicit broadcast routes Message-ID: <20020201.181719.730554943.panariti@mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0202011233150.67160-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> References: <20020201.152304.730551989.panariti@mediaone.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0202011233150.67160-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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>>>>> "Julian" == Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> writes: It's fixed. mergemaster swapped these two lines in /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.ne.mediaone.net ::1 localhost localhost.ne.mediaone.net to ::1 localhost localhost.ne.mediaone.net 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.ne.mediaone.net This apparently confused the tunnel binary. An strace with a ``fixed'' /etc/hosts shows a connect to 127.0.0.1, which makes a lot more sense. Thanks for everything, davep Julian> ummmm by definition a tcp session cannot be to 255.255.255.255 Julian> what on EARTH is it trying to do? Julian> On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, David A. Panariti wrote: >> >>>>> "Garrett" == Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> >> >>>>> writes: >> Garrett> <<On Fri, 01 Feb 2002 12:51:34 -0500 (EST), "David Garrett> A. Panariti" <panariti@mediaone.net> said: >> >> Unfortunately, all I have is a binary for the app, so I can't >> >> figure out what they are doing. I don't even know if making a >> >> TCP connection to 255.255.255.255 is legal. >> Garrett> It is utterly, 100% bogus. >> That was my suspicion. >> >> >> Does anyone know where this explicit broadcast route is being >> >> added, and why? Is there a knob to turn it off? >> Garrett> The route is created automatically in order to speed up Garrett> recognition of broadcast addresses on machines with many Garrett> interfaces. >> >> Where is it created and will it break things if I comment it out? >> This binary is my VPN to work and it is very important that it >> works for me. >> >> thanks, >> >> davep >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with >> "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message >> -- Mother told me to be good, but she's been wrong before. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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