On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 19:45 +0200, Florian wrote:

> 
> Thanks for your clarification.
> However, shouldn't the kernel check if the corresponding package is a
> DHCP Request and in this case skip the rp_filter as the source ip
> address will most likely be invalid? Or is there some special
> motivation for having rp_filter enabled for those packages as well?

You'll have to ask the kernel networking developers.

-Tom
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