FreeBSD eats 169.254.x.x addressed packets

[Stephen Clark]

On 06/09/2010 08:28 AM, Reko Turja wrote:
>> One final comment - I still don't understand why FreeBSD "won't"
>> respond to pings
>> when it has an address like 169.254.1.1. I can ssh to the unit but it
>> won't
>> respond to pings. I tried setting up a linux box with an address like
>> 169.254.1.2 and it "would" respond to pings.
>
> Linux is not really any measuring stick in standard compliance...
>
> -Reko
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But reading the RFC it says the packets should not be routed - I don't see
where it says that pings should not be responded to. Think about it
the RFC was for link local devices - shouldn't on device on a link be
able to ping another device and get a response.

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