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From: eran@nbase.co.il (Eran Man)
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] routing broadcast messages
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:42:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-102630476928599@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-102626138529774@msgid-missing>

Hello All,
What your are trying to do is called "directed broadcast", and the linux 
networking gods believe it is evil (i.e. a security hole) and should not 
be implemented by routers. See 
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/net/9707.3/0030.html for example.
		Eran.
Poltorak Serguei wrote:
> Hello
> 
> but packets  are going To their subnetwork. then m.n.o.w sends packet to
> a.b.c.255 gateways other than a.b.c.1 doesn't know that a.b.c.255 is a
> broadcast. it's only a.b.c.1 (m.n.o.p) who discards the packet
> 
> may be I should redraw my pic.
>   a.b.c.0/24,brd+ -----[ a.b.c.1, m.n.o.p ]-----m.n.o.w
>                <-------pings are going in that direction
> 
> So, packets are going TO their subnet.
> 
> Any idea???
> 
> thanks,
> PoltoS/
> 
> On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, bert hubert wrote:
> 
> ;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
> ;
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-10 12:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-10  0:35 [LARTC] routing broadcast messages Poltorak Serguei
2002-07-10  8:30 ` bert hubert
2002-07-10 10:03 ` Poltorak Serguei
2002-07-10 12:42 ` Eran Man [this message]
2002-07-14  0:40 ` Poltorak Serguei

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