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Re: bug? Linux drops some broadcasts...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Fri Oct 20 07:26:53 1995
From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
To: coyote@step.polymtl.ca (Vincent Cojot)
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 10:21:15 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.951017135425.20616B-100000@step.polymtl.ca> from "Vincent Cojot" at Oct 17, 95 02:35:29 pm
> being that since the school's main inner gateway runs gated as well, if
> that machine goes down, the lab's gateway (the linux machine) would try to
> compensate and try to route everything by itself (which it can't probably
> handle). [I'd like to have your diffs, too, if possible.. :) ]
If gated is running in rip mode only it will behave like routed but
work right. Besides which your hardware spec is good enough to run 3 ethernets
flat out without too much problem.
> The problem of "dropped broadcast packets in happening on 'ADA'".
Make sure your sun has not got x.y.z.0 as its broadcast addresses. Thats
the default broken SunOS (but not Solaris) setting, and get a proper
routed 8).
You shouldn't be seeing problems then, your machine is way over spec
to route a few ethernets 8).
Alan
