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Bug#772650: general: Debian could not use gateway in 169.254.0.0 ip range




W dniu 09.12.2014 o 17:13, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh pisze:
On Tue, 09 Dec 2014, Maciej Kotliński wrote:
It is possible to ping the gateway and other computers in 169.254.1.0/24
network. The packets are not routed by the nat.
link-local addresses, such as 169.254.0.0/16 are "unroutable".  No traffic
from/to link-local addresses is allowed to go "through* an IP
router/gateway.  Ever.

That means it cannot be retransmitted to a different node (i.e. forwarded).
The gateway is correct in dropping these packets when they're not destined
to the gateway itself.
You don't understand what I mean. The gateway is forwarding packages!
It is forwarding packages from Windows, Mac, and other Linux boxes in 169.254.x.x Debian Jessie box doesn't send this packages, there is no packages directed outside arriving gateway (tcpdump).
This is strange for me and there should be the way to change this behaviour.

This is not the matter of forwarding on the gateway. I can forward anything I like with iptables.
I know all the story about forwarding. I do not cite the long text.

You should know that linux as a router forwards 169.254.x.x traffic as any other range.
It is just the matter of what you like.


Regards,

Maciek


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