Having problems with limited broadcast

[Bruce M. Simpson]

Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
> Peter Steele wrote:
>> ...
>> I personally like this idea, but I'm not sure I can sell it to the
>> others. Are there any restrictions to these 169.254.x.y addresses?
>>   
>
> 169.254.0.0/16 must never appear outside a link -- it is strictly 
> scoped to that link.

P.S. I checked in a change to ip_forward() a while back which enforces 
this, as forwarding such traffic between interfaces without NATting it 
or otherwise proxying it is a really bad idea (and also breaks the IPv4 
LL RFC).