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Re: martian packet checks breaks multi-homing

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Subject: Re: martian packet checks breaks multi-homing
From: Niklas Edmundsson <nikke@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 11:22:50 +0200 (CEST)
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On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Niklas Edmundsson wrote:

>
> Hi!
>
> We are setting up a multi homed server (currently running Linux
> 2.4.18) connected to several physical networks (due to the fact that
> the server is a dhcp server too).

<snip>
> I haven't even been able to find a way to disable or circumvent the
> check other than edit the source (fib_validate_source() is rather hard
> to read by the way). It would be nice if there existed a runtime way
> to disable it.

Ignore me. Just after I sent this mail I found
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/rp_filter which solves all my problems.
Sorry for the inconvenience.


/Nikke - spanks the paranoid debian startup scripts a bit.
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