system-config-network & Zeroconf

John W. Linville linville at redhat.com
Thu Mar 6 14:48:53 UTC 2008


On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:47:35AM -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 01:45:00AM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 
> > I don't have access to an Apple machine right now. But my (well
> > educated) guess is that they just spit out their packets on the eth
> > interfaces without directing them to a specific gateway. Translated to
> > Linux that means they have a route like this:
> > 
> >   route add default dev eth0
> > 
> > instead of the usual:
> > 
> >   route add default gw 47.11.8.15
> > 
> > That basically causes those packets to be broadcasted to all people on
> > the network. Then, every host that believes it can make use of those
> > packets will route them on.
> 
> I could be wrong, but I think you're router (i.e. the box sharing

s/you're/your/

The Internet has ruined my grammar...

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John W. Linville
linville at redhat.com




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