From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 9 13:55:27 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 461A41065680 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2010 13:55:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhellenthal@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2DD38FC12 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2010 13:55:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn7 with SMTP id 7so2391981iwn.13 for ; Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:55:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=bMqrLbpCOKNrXUcvscE2WCnbjURs/NTYTMZ/eJPUyDI=; b=Ngfh2cBmUUrxe+HejW3TWrDIXOZ2K4WdxRco59Qy0Ja7xYrkDDJFuMUt7EQWCl6o97 NR0t8/iiCeEsC0gjSCIu78QaRD04IG7OdouKIIN2lfFspnwH0A1CoGzWx5Bbsf8CA7mf slYH5Ejo4HAHIVqlYGeAA73F8hCURVCRo/bl0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=kh4l1Wp9IMFVj1o0qqwF+YU8o4MGZwihEgMGTjkm4dbQg9hhX82NPucidDsmBfz6TC JLKDNqszIeNTcTXUDD/f0kZPxyqKBQE/t95sLTZ1R5/VMXVas3IawPlHdqzhRZrqeKno luVuvxHHS1lIPHamrn6vgobAIkoVPh2dhWPCo= Received: by 10.231.170.3 with SMTP id b3mr7998739ibz.122.1276091725950; Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:55:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from centel.dataix.local (adsl-99-181-128-180.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net [99.181.128.180]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t28sm31038831ibg.12.2010.06.09.06.55.14 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:55:20 -0700 (PDT) Sender: "J. Hellenthal" Message-ID: <4C0F9D41.40009@dataix.net> Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:55:13 -0400 From: jhell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100515 Thunderbird 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> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 OpenPGP: id=89D8547E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: sclark46@earthlink.net, 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 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 13:55:27 -0000 On 06/09/2010 08:28, 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... > I do not believe that is what he was implying by comparing this to Linux. I think he might be using Linux as a example of "They have not limited their users to only changing source code" to get the objective completed. They should have. In this case and reviewing the previous messages + remembering these: http://bit.ly/9sigji http://bit.ly/9pfE9A http://bit.ly/9CNT3K FreeBSD takes the correct action for this scenario which could proudly be used as an exemplary piece of code that other forms of OS's should use as a reference for integrity. http://bit.ly/byHBzN Regards, -- jhell