From: "Rémi Denis-Courmont" <remi@remlab.net>
To: sclark46@earthlink.net
Cc: Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Which is correct.
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:17:48 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201108172017.48683.remi@remlab.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E4BF456.9000807@earthlink.net>
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).
--
Rémi Denis-Courmont
http://www.remlab.net/
http://fi.linkedin.com/in/remidenis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-17 17:26 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 [this message]
2011-08-17 19:44 ` Stephen Clark
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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