[wplug] Dual Ethernet Ports - One routing table

Brian A. Seklecki lavalamp at spiritual-machines.org
Tue Aug 25 14:14:59 EDT 2009


On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 14:03 -0400, Weber, Lawrence A wrote:
> it cannot reach the gateway, so it assumes that the network is still
> down and sends the response to itself.  

FYI RFC/Common Practice:

If you can't ARP for a remote device, and net.inet4.ip.forwarding=1,
generate an ICMP host unreachable message back to the source.

E.g, gateway can't ARP for final destination or next-hop gateway as
defined by routing table.




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