RE: TCP/IP and programming connectivity problem (routing table question)

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   6. Re: TCP/IP and programming connectivity problem (routing
>      table question) (Larry Bolhuis)
>
>   You are right on.  Internet RFCs stipulate that a host should not 
>respond to traffic from a host to which it does not have a route either 
>static (entered manually) or learned. OS/400 follows the RFCs as closely 
>as possible IP Routing is no exception. Some other 'wannabe' OSs will 
>simply respond back through the router (gateway) from which the packet 
>originated but this is a security exposure.

Yow, if true, I have seriously misunderstood the whole purpose of default 
routers pointing to routers and the whole Internet thing including DNS and 
other elements. I've seen dynamic routes appearing all the time on every AS/400 
I've ever run TCP/IP on.

I assume that some clarification will clear up what you're saying here.

Tom Liotta

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