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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deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Ben Franklin)
"The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty
decreases." (Thomas Jefferson)
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