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From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD eats 169.254.x.x addressed packets
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On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:30:49 -0400
Stephen Clark <sclark46@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Hmmm... how is not responding to pings associated with forwarding?

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/169.254
Link Local addresses are special.

HTH
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Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen