Re: [SLE] Routing

Martin wrote:

--- Jim Cunning wrote:

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Today at 12:58pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:

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Out of curiosity, is there a disadvantage of

turning on IP forwarding even if

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it isn't necessary?

I would say no, there isn't any disadvantage. I don't think there's any advantage to messing with the default, either.

Let's assume you did turn on IP forwarding and your host/server receives IP packet sent to your host/server MAC but destination IP belongs to other host. What happens then? I believe host/server would forward such packet and in case this would be high rate stream of data it may kill it.

Martin

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I've seen this happen on mainframe consoles using OS/2, remote console sends packets to a local console, all 3 local consoles receive the packets and the 2 other consoles on the network forward them on, eventually and frequently the receiving console dies. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.