FreeBSD eats 169.254.x.x addressed packets

Reko Turja reko.turja at liukuma.net
Wed Jun 9 12:28:29 UTC 2010


> 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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