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 :
   

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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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