From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 9 9:31:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from enterprise.spock.org (cm-24-29-85-81.nycap.rr.com [24.29.85.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4C1637B406; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 09:31:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@enterprise.spock.org) Received: (from jon@localhost) by enterprise.spock.org serial EF600Q3T-B7F; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 12:30:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jon)$ Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 12:30:56 -0400 From: Jonathan Chen To: bv@wjv.com Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: forwarding broadcast Message-ID: <20010809123056.G9519@enterprise.spock.org> References: <20010809113638.A9519@enterprise.spock.org> <20010809122352.B32613@wjv.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: telnet/1.1x In-Reply-To: <20010809122352.B32613@wjv.com>; from bill@wjv.com on Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 12:23:52PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 12:23:52PM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote: > On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:36:38AM -0400, Jonathan Chen thus sprach: > > > On FreeBSD -CURRENT and -STABLE, packets to broadcast addresses > > are not forwarded. For instance, if I have a FreeBSD router with > > interfaces 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.2.1, and I send packets from > > 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.2.255, the packets are dropped to the > > floor. IMO, this is wrong... > > But the question now is - what is the netmask on these interfaces.? > That will make a difference. These are both class C networks, and their netmask is specified accordingly (/24). I'm pretty sure my setup is correct here. -Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message