Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 15:23:04 -0500 (EST) From: "David A. Panariti" <panariti@mediaone.net> To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.5R and explicit broadcast routes Message-ID: <20020201.152304.730551989.panariti@mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: <200202011829.g11ITmq86936@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <20020201.125134.730570091.panariti@mediaone.net> <200202011829.g11ITmq86936@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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>>>>> "Garrett" == Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> writes: Garrett> <<On Fri, 01 Feb 2002 12:51:34 -0500 (EST), "David Garrett> A. Panariti" <panariti@mediaone.net> said: >> Unfortunately, all I have is a binary for the app, so I can't >> figure out what they are doing. I don't even know if making a TCP >> connection to 255.255.255.255 is legal. Garrett> It is utterly, 100% bogus. That was my suspicion. >> Does anyone know where this explicit broadcast route is being >> added, and why? Is there a knob to turn it off? Garrett> The route is created automatically in order to speed up Garrett> recognition of broadcast addresses on machines with many Garrett> interfaces. Where is it created and will it break things if I comment it out? This binary is my VPN to work and it is very important that it works for me. thanks, davep To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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