For some reason linux drops all incoming packets which have a source
address in the 0.0.0.0/8 range, although these are valid addresses. The
attached patch fixes this. (It still drops packets coming from 0.0.0.0
since that's a special address.)
Signed-off-by: Amnon Aaronsohn <[email protected]>
---
--- linux-2.6.16.18/net/ipv4/route.c.old 2006-05-30 08:57:42.000000000 +0300
+++ linux-2.6.16.18/net/ipv4/route.c 2006-05-30 08:58:22.000000000 +0300
@@ -1935,7 +1935,7 @@ static int ip_route_input_slow(struct sk
/* Accept zero addresses only to limited broadcast;
* I even do not know to fix it or not. Waiting for complains :-)
*/
- if (ZERONET(saddr))
+ if (saddr == 0)
goto martian_source;
if (BADCLASS(daddr) || ZERONET(daddr) || LOOPBACK(daddr))
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
