From owner-freebsd-net Fri Feb 1 15:17:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from chmls16.mediaone.net (chmls16.ne.ipsvc.net [24.147.1.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E25F237B405 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 15:17:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from baloo.ne.mediaone.net (panariti.ne.mediaone.net [66.30.120.53]) by chmls16.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g11NHjP19038; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 18:17:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by baloo.ne.mediaone.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g11NHKP01127; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 18:17:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from panariti@mediaone.net) Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 18:17:19 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20020201.181719.730554943.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 From: "David A. Panariti" In-Reply-To: References: <20020201.152304.730551989.panariti@mediaone.net> X-Attribution: davep X-Mailer: Mew version 2.2rc1 on XEmacs 21.4.6 (Common Lisp) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>> "Julian" == Julian Elischer 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 >> >>>>> writes: >> Garrett> < A. Panariti" 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