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Date:      Thu, 9 Aug 2001 12:23:52 -0400
From:      Bill Vermillion <bill@wjv.com>
To:        Jonathan Chen <jon@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        net@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: forwarding broadcast
Message-ID:  <20010809122352.B32613@wjv.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010809113638.A9519@enterprise.spock.org>; from jon@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:36:38AM -0400
References:  <20010809113638.A9519@enterprise.spock.org>

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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.

-- 
Bill Vermillion -   bv @ wjv . com

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