Re: MiDI driver for MiNT-net?

[Kay Roemer <roemer@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>]

> > > Erm...There's a problem, I think. Each machine that recieves it will try
> > > to route the packet according to their routing tables, IIUIC. That would
> > > mean that a packet that arrives at a machine for which it is not intended
> > > will go back out the 'default' route. That will mean that a copy of the
> > > packet would bounce around the network until it's TTL expired. (Multiplied
> > > by the number of 'incorrect' receivers, unless sequence numbers squash
> > > them).

Just in case I didn't say that already: IP never forwards a packet to an
interface from which the packet came from. If gatewaying is enabled it sends
instead an ICMP REDIRECT to the sender; if gatewaying is disabled it silently
discards the packet.

Kay.
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