netdev - Re: vnet problem (bug? feature?)

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Date:	Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:54:08 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	tte@...fau.de
Cc:	sowmini05@...il.com, billfink@...dspring.com,
	cwang@...pensource.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vnet problem (bug? feature?)

From: Toerless Eckert <tte@...fau.de>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:13:10 +0100

> I fail to find a good reference explaining why linux would default to
> rp_filtering = 1 (more appropriate for routers) even if forwarding defaults to 0
> (more appropriate for multi-homed hosts). 
> 
> Any ideas how to track back where this  choice came from ? 

"Linux", ie. the kernel, does not default to '1' for rp_filtering.

The distributions are setting it to a non-zere value via
/etc/sysctl.conf or similar, and I've always said that I consider it
an extremely poor decision, as reverse path filtering is completely
pointless on an end host.
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