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From: Tom Eastep <teastep@shorewall.net>
To: Rodolfo Siviero Stein <rstein@persogo.com.br>
Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Strange Problem - IPTables or Hardware related ????
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 07:07:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DB40A0D.4090302@shorewall.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5.1.1.6.0.20021018113106.00a91488@webmail.persogo.com.br



Rodolfo Siviero Stein wrote:

> 
>     Anyone had a problem like this ?  Any comments ?  Is this hardware 
> related or software ?
> 

Do you have multiple NICs cabled to the same HUB/switch? In my experience, 
when people see packets arriving on unexpected interfaces, that is the 
cause. The manner in which the Linux kernel handles ARP "who-has" requests 
makes this type of configuration unsuitable for firewalling since any 
interface connected to the HUB/switch can respond to "who-has" requests 
for any of the addresses assigned to one of those NICs.

-Tom
-- 
Tom Eastep    \ Shorewall - iptables made easy
AIM: tmeastep  \ http://www.shorewall.net
ICQ: #60745924  \ teastep@shorewall.net



      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-10-21 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-18 14:56 Strange Problem - IPTables or Hardware related ???? Rodolfo Siviero Stein
2002-10-18 21:01 ` Joel Newkirk
2002-10-21 14:07 ` Tom Eastep [this message]

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