Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!pyrdc!grebyn!umd5!hans
From: hans@umd5.umd.edu (Hans Breitenlohner)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Latest news on our ether errors
Message-ID: <2356@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 25 Feb 88 23:42:43 GMT
References: <8403@g.ms.uky.edu> <4097@lll-winken.llnl.gov> <678@kaos.UUCP>
Reply-To: hans@umd5 (Hans Breitenlohner)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <678@kaos.UUCP> romkey@kaos.UUCP (John Romkey) writes:
  [ he explains why some machines will ARP for addresses x.x.x.255.
    Then he states: ]
> ... There's a variable
>in the kernel which controls IP forwarding and you can use adb to turn
>it off, but I don't remember the name of the variable.
>-- 


I have no first-hand experience with this, but I have been told that you
lose either way.  If you turn forwarding off, then you will get ICMP
unreachable messages instead of the ARPs.