Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 10:48:36 -0600
From: parker@citynetwireless.net
To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ICMP ttl-exceeded packets not sourced correctly
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Then check for that, and fall back to route lookup if it's receive-only. BSD
already does this, and so does all other router manufacturers, but it's broken
under Linux. I think David Schwartz is completely missing the point of having
multiple providers, hence the reason for the source address to be different.

parker@citynetwireless.net wrote:
>
> ICMP ttl-exceeded code's response should not be originated from the interface
> holding the route, but should be origianted from the interface that got hit
> with the traceroute.

What if the interface is a receive-only interface?
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