Re: ipfilter, return-icmp and RFC1122

[der Mouse <mouse%Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA@localhost>]

> Subnet-specific broadcast addresses are only broadcast addresses on
> the subnet with that address.  If they arrive on another interface
> you can do anything you would normally do with any packet addressed
> to the same subnet, firewall or not, except that by default the
> router shouldn't forward the packet onto the subnet where it would be
> broadcast.

You mean that the "don't send ICMPs in response to packets sent to
broadcast addresses" actually means "...to packets sent to what on the
incoming interface is a broadcast address"?

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