netdev - Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Which is correct.

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Date:	Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:44:00 -0400
From:	Stephen Clark <sclark46@...thlink.net>
To:	Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi@...lab.net>
CC:	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Which is correct.

On 08/17/2011 01:17 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le mercredi 17 août 2011 20:03:18 Stephen Clark, vous avez écrit :
>    
>> I have run into a situation where if I ping our HQ the response comes
>> back on a different
>> interface than what the request went out on. FreeBSD is happy and says
>> it got the response,
>> Linux is not and gives no indication it got a response.
>>
>> So is FreeBSD wrong or is Linux wrong?
>>      
> Most distributions enable reverse path filtering by default.
> It can be disabled:
> # echo -n 0>  /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
>
> But you should probably fix the configuration instead (e.g. /etc/sysctl.conf).
>
>    
Sorry that didn't help either.

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