From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 9 13:26:19 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 75A631065670 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2010 13:26:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sclark46@earthlink.net) Received: from elasmtp-spurfowl.atl.sa.earthlink.net (elasmtp-spurfowl.atl.sa.earthlink.net [209.86.89.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D84C8FC1E for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2010 13:26:18 +0000 (UTC) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=earthlink.net; b=iH97hUnGrBN1il557XsJ4oBNlp5S6qcJoMiZTyD0XXRCxzs7Qf+4ejL6BmPEMNYc; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Received: from [69.22.83.66] (helo=joker.seclark.com) by elasmtp-spurfowl.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1OMLIQ-00075t-At; Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:26:18 -0400 Message-ID: <4C0F9678.90605@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:26:16 -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: Reko Turja References: <4C0E81D7.8020209@earthlink.net> <20100608180506.GA9340@icarus.home.lan> <4C0E8B42.70603@earthlink.net> <20100608184429.GA12052@icarus.home.lan> <20100608184919.GY63749@cesium.hyperfine.info><4C0E935E.1020409@earthlink.net> <4C0F8214.3090104@earthlink.net> <4A84438AC2044DEF873A7341CF0CF2F0@rivendell> In-Reply-To: <4A84438AC2044DEF873A7341CF0CF2F0@rivendell> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: a437fbc6971e80f61aa676d7e74259b7b3291a7d08dfec798f74db92c3f33b387982e1f37a035487350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 69.22.83.66 Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: 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: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:26:19 -0000 On 06/09/2010 08:28 AM, Reko Turja wrote: >> One final comment - I still don't understand why FreeBSD "won't" >> respond to pings >> when it has an address like 169.254.1.1. I can ssh to the unit but it >> won't >> respond to pings. I tried setting up a linux box with an address like >> 169.254.1.2 and it "would" respond to pings. > > Linux is not really any measuring stick in standard compliance... > > -Reko > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > But reading the RFC it says the packets should not be routed - I don't see where it says that pings should not be responded to. Think about it the RFC was for link local devices - shouldn't on device on a link be able to ping another device and get a response. -- "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)