kern/103950: [netinet] [patch] Broadcast packets are not forwarded

Yar Tikhiy yar at comp.chem.msu.su
Wed Oct 11 04:40:23 PDT 2006


The following reply was made to PR kern/103950; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Yar Tikhiy <yar at comp.chem.msu.su>
To: Damien Deville <damien.deville at netasq.com>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/103950: [netinet] [patch] Broadcast packets are not forwarded
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:37:53 +0400

 On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:52:54AM +0200, Damien Deville wrote:
 > 
 > We did not tested the fast forward path as our setup need it to be disabled.
 
 According to my test, fastforward won't route directed broadcasts.
 However, I failed to see exactly why from a quick glance at the code.
 I'll look in detail later.
 
 -- 
 Yar


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