Dear list, I have a Bering 1.2 firewall. I have read several man pages for ip route, and they all say ~ " local - the destinations are assigned to this host. The packets are looped back and delivered locally.
broadcast - the destinations are broadcast addresses. The packets are sent as link broadcasts. " However, several lines in the output below don't make sense, specifically: broadcast 192.168.1.0 dev eth1 table local proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.254 broadcast 216.x.y.64 dev eth0 table local proto kernel scope link src 216.x.y.89 broadcast 127.0.0.0 dev lo table local proto kernel scope link src 127.0.0.1 How are 192.168.1.0, 216.x.y.64 or 127.0.0.0 broadcast addresses? I can ping 216.x.y.64, and I do not get bazillions of replies (a la solaris), so it I don't think it can be a broadcast address, IMHO. Can anybody explain this to me? TIA, Rick. Background: I issued the following command: ip route list table all Which gives (in my case) table main and local. The output is: # ip route list table all 216.x.y.64/26 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 216.x.y.89 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.254 default via 216.x.y.65 dev eth0 broadcast 216.x.y.64 dev eth0 table local proto kernel scope link src 216.x.y.89 broadcast 192.168.1.0 dev eth1 table local proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.254 broadcast 127.255.255.255 dev lo table local proto kernel scope link src 127.0.0.1 local 192.168.1.254 dev eth1 table local proto kernel scope host src 192.168.1.254 local 216.x.y.89 dev eth0 table local proto kernel scope host src 216.x.y.89 broadcast 192.168.1.255 dev eth1 table local proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.254 broadcast 127.0.0.0 dev lo table local proto kernel scope link src 127.0.0.1 broadcast 216.x.y.127 dev eth0 table local proto kernel scope link src 216.x.y.89 local 127.0.0.1 dev lo table local proto kernel scope host src 127.0.0.1 local 127.0.0.0/8 dev lo table local proto kernel scope host src 127.0.0.1 216.x.y.89 is my external static IP 216.x.y.127 is the broadcast address (/26 network) 216.x.y.65 is the default gateway I have no idea what 216.x.y.64 is --- it is in no config file on Bering -- but I can ping it. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
