From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 8 17:58:38 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1E19106566C for ; Tue, 8 Jun 2010 17:58:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sclark46@earthlink.net) Received: from elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthlink.net (elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthlink.net [209.86.89.62]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 986F28FC15 for ; Tue, 8 Jun 2010 17:58:38 +0000 (UTC) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=earthlink.net; b=rQFZ6L6Aal0vML9zeUI9ITHmZV0MH09wIB0oRAt2u7aY2kIpQul1K9zlZ/TfxNib; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Received: from [69.22.83.66] (helo=joker.seclark.com) by elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1OM2sC-0000gw-Td for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:46:00 -0400 Message-ID: <4C0E81D7.8020209@earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:45:59 -0400 From: Stephen Clark User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100430 Fedora/3.0.4-2.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: a437fbc6971e80f61aa676d7e74259b7b3291a7d08dfec79786c24edc18d65cb7afbe50e2f659a42350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 69.22.83.66 Subject: FreeBSD eats 169.254.x.x addressed packets X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: sclark46@earthlink.net List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:58:38 -0000 Hi, Why does FreeBSD 6.3 eat 169.254.x.x addressed packet when 4.9 didn't? ***** 6.3 ***** $ sudo ipfstat -nio empty list for ipfilter(out) empty list for ipfilter(in) Z2984:~ $ ifconfig rl0 rl0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 options=8 inet 192.168.129.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.129.255 inet 169.254.1.1 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 169.254.255.255 ether 00:30:18:ae:7c:77 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active Z2984:~ $ ping 169.254.1.1 PING 169.254.1.1 (169.254.1.1): 56 data bytes ^C --- 169.254.1.1 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss Z2984:~ $ uname -a FreeBSD Z2984.netwolves.com 6.3-RELEASE-p15 FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p15 #17: Fri Apr 16 12:51:57 EST 2010 **** 4.9 ***** FreeBSD H101494.com 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #59: Thu Mar 30 13:42:10 EST 2006 root@A1234.com:/mnt2/src/sys/compile/ i386 H101494# ipf -Fa H101494# ipfstat -nio empty list for ipfilter(out) empty list for ipfilter(in) H101494# ifconfig rl0 rl0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 10.254.151.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.254.151.255 inet 10.255.3.30 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 10.255.3.30 inet 10.255.4.30 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 10.255.4.30 inet 169.254.202.1 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 169.254.255.255 ether 00:30:18:a3:49:b5 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier H101494# ping 169.254.202.1 PING 169.254.202.1 (169.254.202.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 169.254.202.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.052 ms 64 bytes from 169.254.202.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.080 ms 64 bytes from 169.254.202.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.081 ms ^C --- 169.254.202.1 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.052/0.071/0.081/0.013 ms Thanks, Steve -- "They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Ben Franklin) "The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." (Thomas Jefferson)