Re: RFC 919 compliance (broadcasts to 255.255.255.255)

2006-08-05 Thread Benjamin Lutz
On Saturday 05 August 2006 07:18, you wrote: > On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Benjamin Lutz wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've noticed that FreeBSD does not by default comply to RFC 919, Chapter > > 7 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc919). Specifically, it does not handle > > IP packets with a destination address o

Re: RFC 919 compliance (broadcasts to 255.255.255.255)

2006-08-04 Thread Mohacsi Janos
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Benjamin Lutz wrote: Hello, I've noticed that FreeBSD does not by default comply to RFC 919, Chapter 7 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc919). Specifically, it does not handle IP packets with a destination address of 255.255.255.255 properly. 255.255.255.255 is a "limited

Re: RFC 919 compliance (broadcasts to 255.255.255.255)

2006-08-04 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
>This PR is in the works and I have produced a first (non-working unfortunately) >patch some time ago. I've just come back from two+half week vacation and have >to catch up to things again. It is not forgotten. Ok :) Thanks for your work! -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov _

Re: RFC 919 compliance (broadcasts to 255.255.255.255)

2006-08-04 Thread Andre Oppermann
Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: I found a discussion from 2003 about this, but it seems to have trailed off without coming to a conclusion: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2003-July/000921.html I've opened a similar PR http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/99558 This PR i

Re: RFC 919 compliance (broadcasts to 255.255.255.255)

2006-08-04 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
>I found a discussion from 2003 about this, but it seems to have trailed off >without coming to a conclusion: >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2003-July/000921.html I've opened a similar PR http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/99558 -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov _

RFC 919 compliance (broadcasts to 255.255.255.255)

2006-08-04 Thread Benjamin Lutz
Hello, I've noticed that FreeBSD does not by default comply to RFC 919, Chapter 7 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc919). Specifically, it does not handle IP packets with a destination address of 255.255.255.255 properly. 255.255.255.255 is a "limited broadcast address" (the term is not mentioned