From: Stephen Clark <sclark46@earthlink.net>
To: "Rémi Denis-Courmont" <remi@remlab.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Which is correct.
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:44:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E4C1A00.80207@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201108172017.48683.remi@remlab.net>
On 08/17/2011 01:17 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le mercredi 17 août 2011 20:03:18 Stephen Clark, vous avez écrit :
>
>> I have run into a situation where if I ping our HQ the response comes
>> back on a different
>> interface than what the request went out on. FreeBSD is happy and says
>> it got the response,
>> Linux is not and gives no indication it got a response.
>>
>> So is FreeBSD wrong or is Linux wrong?
>>
> Most distributions enable reverse path filtering by default.
> It can be disabled:
> # echo -n 0> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
>
> But you should probably fix the configuration instead (e.g. /etc/sysctl.conf).
>
>
Sorry that didn't help either.
--
"They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety,
deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Ben Franklin)
"The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty
decreases." (Thomas Jefferson)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-17 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-17 17:03 Linux vs FreeBSD Which is correct Stephen Clark
2011-08-17 17:10 ` Emil S Tantilov
2011-08-17 17:20 ` Stephen Clark
2011-08-17 17:17 ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2011-08-17 19:44 ` Stephen Clark [this message]
2011-08-17 20:15 ` Pascal Hambourg
2011-08-18 12:42 ` Stephen Clark
2011-08-19 16:18 ` Chris Friesen
2011-08-19 19:10 ` Stephen Clark
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