From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bert hubert Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 08:30:36 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] routing broadcast messages Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 04:35:16AM +0400, Poltorak Serguei wrote: > Hello. > > I would like to route broadcast messages. > For now, if I ping a.b.c.255 from m.n.o.w the packet is passing through > each router, except the last, a.b.c.1 (m.n.o.p, other "external" address) > and only he replys to that packet, but not from a.b.c.1, he does it from > m.n.o.p address (logic, it's the address of the output interface). Broadcast messages don't leave their subnet. If you want that, you don't need a router but a bridge! Regards, bert -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Versatile DNS Software & Services http://www.tk the dot in .tk http://lartc.org Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/