[CentOS] CentOS5 Network Problems

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 at 5:04pm, semi linux wrote

> Wicked! that worked... How weird...  I'm going to have to look this up
> and read about it... it seems weird that the kernel would have it on
> by default if it's as common as it seems to me.
>
> Thanks a million!
>
> You don't happen to have any links of where you found this, do you?

Here's one:

http://lwn.net/Articles/92727/

Bottom line is that the behavior is a result of broken routers, and the 
kernel leaves it enabled because it *should* work.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF