(PM) PM2ER/PM3 source address (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Fri, 30 Jan 1998 18:40:15 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Dick St.Peters shaped the electrons to say...
>Problem: RADIUS and syslog packets from the PM2ER sent out the W1 port
> have the ether0 address as their source address.

Right. That is one of the core features of ALL of our products. Unit
identity is defined by ether0. That is how it has always been, and a lot
of ComOS is based on that. The unit is *defined* by ether0.

>PM3s do this too. Relatively unimportant things like pings from the
>PMs get it right, with source address being that of the interface the
>packet is sent out. Just the key admin things - things that most

ICMP is the only protocol that uses the interface I believe, and I'd
like to see that use ether0 for consistency.

-MZ

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