Re: OpenBSD box returning wrong IP

bradmbreer_at_yahoo.com
Date: 03/31/05 

Date: 31 Mar 2005 08:35:11 -0800

It doesn't need a route to 192.168.215.254. Windows boxes don't need to
know about every network. They only need to know how to get to the
network they are directly connected to and how to get to the router
(default gateway, openbsd box). The router will get its packet to any
remote network.

If you undertsand how traceroute works this isn't really that
surprising. When the openbsd box is sending the ICMP TTL exceeded
message back to the windows box it's simply choosing to use
192.168.215.254 as its source IP address.

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