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Date:      Wed, 9 Jun 2010 15:28:36 +0300
From:      "Reko Turja" <reko.turja@liukuma.net>
To:        <sclark46@earthlink.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD eats 169.254.x.x addressed packets
Message-ID:  <4A84438AC2044DEF873A7341CF0CF2F0@rivendell>
In-Reply-To: <4C0F8214.3090104@earthlink.net>
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>

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> One final comment - I still don't understand why FreeBSD "won't"=20
> respond to pings
> when it has an address like 169.254.1.1. I can ssh to the unit but=20
> it won't
> respond to pings. I tried setting up a linux box with an address=20
> like
> 169.254.1.2 and it "would" respond to pings.

Linux is not really any measuring stick in standard compliance...

-Reko=20




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