On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 02:33:49AM -0800, Trevor Talbot wrote: > >And this is where your packet gets dropped, due to the M_BCAST flag: > > >You should see the counter increase in netstat -p ip output: > > Yep, this is it. Thanks for tracking this down.
Just to make sure: the destination IP address of the ICMP echo reply is not a broadcast address on IP level, right? According to the networks and netmasks, it's a plain unicast address (not any network's broadcast address, the network address with all netmask bits set)? If you accidentally picked a subnet's broadcast address there, the packet would be correctly dropped instead of getting forwarded. But if only the ethernet mac address is broadcast, I think it should get forwarded. If you're not sure, quote ifconfig -a output for the interface and provide the IP destination address of the packet. Daniel
