From owner-cvs-all Fri Mar 2 4:15:24 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1723837B71B; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 04:15:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 2 Mar 2001 12:15:17 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 12:15:17 +0000 From: David Malone To: Tony Finch Cc: Jonathan Lemon , Garrett Wollman , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_input.c Message-ID: <20010302121517.A62586@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <200103012339.f21NdW309088@freefall.freebsd.org> <15006.60555.97100.465265@nomad.yogotech.com> <20010301184258.T25974@prism.flugsvamp.com> <15006.61041.727634.597339@nomad.yogotech.com> <200103020236.VAA06356@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200103020236.VAA06356@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20010301234414.Y25974@prism.flugsvamp.com> <20010302120051.D412@hand.dotat.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010302120051.D412@hand.dotat.at>; from dot@dotat.at on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:00:51PM +0000 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:00:51PM +0000, Tony Finch wrote: > Jonathan Lemon wrote: > >The cases where the system is configured as a non-gateway machine but > >is supposed to receive packets on the 'wrong' interface are not that > >common. Also, I will point out that we now have alternate mechanisms > >for accomplishing the same thing; e.g. the configuration you > >described above could be set up by adding an alias of the ethernet > >interface to the FDDI interface for each machine. > > A configuration I have used in the past for virtual hosting systems is > to configure aliases on the loopback interface in order to avoid > problems with ARP: This has been often recommended on the mailing lists too, it also seems to be listed in several guides on ip aliasing and virtual hosting on FreeBSD. Maybe this should be a sysctl that is off by default, but gets turned on if people choose one of the more secure options in sysinstall? David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message