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Re: Feature/hack for multi-homed hosts (esp. ifconfig alias)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Tue May 30 08:03:09 1995
From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
To: linux@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de (Mister Linux)
Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 10:33:56 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199505272334.BAA23865@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE> from "Mister Linux" at May 28, 95 01:34:29 am
> Both Linux and NetBSD apparently assume that they are being spoofed and
> discard the packages silently ... timeout. All other OS in our zoo (HP/UX,
> OSF/1, Irix, SPP-UX, Solaris, SunOS, AIX , Ultrix, SINIX and SCO) can work
> with this setup without any apparent problems.
There is a patch for this if you want to use it. The reason NetBSD also does
this is because connected UDP send is much faster than unconnected in BSD. In
Linux its just an 'inherited' property.
Alan
