Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:14:06 +0000 From: "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Bruce Walker <bmw@wezel.com> Subject: Re: Having problems with limited broadcast Message-ID: <4966EB2E.7010301@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4966EA2F.5040603@FreeBSD.org> References: <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F2479DF2@polaris.maxiscale.com> <28b9b4180901070039x27a25bb4m6b50c8bfae63e0af@mail.gmail.com> <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F2479E9A@polaris.maxiscale.com> <4964CA2E.5090708@wezel.com> <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F2479FB0@polaris.maxiscale.com> <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F2479FCE@polaris.maxiscale.com> <d763ac660901081411l59120580yb4919a16b451e3ee@mail.gmail.com> <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F2479FD9@polaris.maxiscale.com><49668C71.4090407@FreeBSD.org> <4966A283.4070505@wezel.com> <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F247A00E@polaris.maxiscale.com> <4966EA2F.5040603@FreeBSD.org>
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Bruce M. Simpson wrote: > Peter Steele wrote: >> ... >> I personally like this idea, but I'm not sure I can sell it to the >> others. Are there any restrictions to these 169.254.x.y addresses? >> > > 169.254.0.0/16 must never appear outside a link -- it is strictly > scoped to that link. P.S. I checked in a change to ip_forward() a while back which enforces this, as forwarding such traffic between interfaces without NATting it or otherwise proxying it is a really bad idea (and also breaks the IPv4 LL RFC).
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