On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Another way to look at it might be: Since a lot of people have libvirt
> installed (it's the default isn't it?) and hence forwarding has been
> on for many people for a long time, what harm is it causing?
RFC 1812
> 2.2.8.1 Embedded Routers
>
><snip> The embedded router feature seems to make building a network easy, but
>it has a number of hidden pitfalls:
>
> (1) If a host has only a single constituent-network interface, it should not
> act as a router.
>
> For example, hosts with embedded router code that gratuitously forward
> broadcast packets or datagrams on the same net often cause packet avalanches.
I'm almost certain that some other RFC requires forwarding for
~workstations to be opt-in, but I couldn't find it.
Mirek
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