Re: [LARTC] routing broadcast messages

2002-07-13 Thread Poltorak Serguei
Hello. this is Kuznetsov's point of view of 1997 :) I think it might change. Why not to implement this feature as optional thing, like syn cookies, that you are to enable. Sometimes this is a security hole, but sometimes - not. I need this to do a tunnel between two networks with windoze inside.

Re: [LARTC] routing broadcast messages

2002-07-10 Thread Eran Man
Hello All, What your are trying to do is called "directed broadcast", and the linux networking gods believe it is evil (i.e. a security hole) and should not be implemented by routers. See http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/net/9707.3/0030.html for example. Eran. Poltorak Ser

Re: [LARTC] routing broadcast messages

2002-07-10 Thread Poltorak Serguei
Hello but packets are going To their subnetwork. then m.n.o.w sends packet to a.b.c.255 gateways other than a.b.c.1 doesn't know that a.b.c.255 is a broadcast. it's only a.b.c.1 (m.n.o.p) who discards the packet may be I should redraw my pic. a.b.c.0/24,brd+ -[ a.b.c.1, m.n.o.p ]-m.n.

Re: [LARTC] routing broadcast messages

2002-07-10 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 04:35:16AM +0400, Poltorak Serguei wrote: > Hello. > > I would like to route broadcast messages. > For now, if I ping a.b.c.255 from m.n.o.w the packet is passing through > each router, except the last, a.b.c.1 (m.n.o.p, other "external" address) > and only he replys to th

[LARTC] routing broadcast messages

2002-07-09 Thread Poltorak Serguei
Hello. I would like to route broadcast messages. For now, if I ping a.b.c.255 from m.n.o.w the packet is passing through each router, except the last, a.b.c.1 (m.n.o.p, other "external" address) and only he replys to that packet, but not from a.b.c.1, he does it from m.n.o.p address (logic, it's