Re: (PM) Avalanche! Help! (fwd)

Rob Chandhok (chandhok@within.com)
Mon, 26 Jan 1998 09:46:43 -0500

At 6:33 PM -0800 1/25/98, MegaZone wrote:
>There is a request open to have a PM squelch packets that come in for a
>pool IP address when that address isn't in use. But is hasn't been a
>high priority as it hasn't been a major issue for most users. And the
>ofilter on the ether0 as describe can do it today. People just want it
>to be automatic.

Well, I understand the situation now, thanks for everyone's comments.

I have to agree this sounds like a ComOS problem. The previously posted
output filters depend on the PM having a pool on a nice address block
boundary, which isn't always the case. So the filters can be a bit more
complicated.

Since the PM obviously *knows* that the address isn't in use, I can't
imagine this would be a difficult or risky fix. Is there some subtle issue
here that makes this "squelching" a risky thing to implement?

Our PM3 use a default router that's on the local switched 10MB ethernet, so
I don't think we are hurting from this. But it seems like something worth
fixing.

I'm going to send mail to rfe@livingston.com. Maybe if enough people ask
it will get rolled into the engineering plans.

Thanks again.
Rob

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