On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 06:35:05PM -0700, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 02:12 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Ar Mer, 2006-10-11 am 19:45 -0400, ysgrifennodd Trond Myklebust:
> > > Feel free to tell the board manufacturers that they are idiots, and
> > > should not design boards that hijack specific ports without providing
> > > the O/S with any means of detecting this, but in the meantime, it _is_
> > > the case that they are doing this.
> >
> > Then their hardware is faulty and should be specifically blacklisted not
> > make everyone have to deal with silly unmaintainable hacks.
>
> They are not hacks. The actual range of ports used by the RPC client is
> set using /proc/sys/sunrpc/(min|max)_resvport. People that don't have
> broken motherboards can override the default range, which is all that we
> are changing here.
>
> To be fair, the motherboard manufacturers have actually registered these
> ports with IANA:
>
> asf-rmcp 623/tcp ASF Remote Management and Control Protocol
> asf-rmcp 623/udp ASF Remote Management and Control Protocol
>
> asf-secure-rmcp 664/tcp ASF Secure Remote Management and Control Protocol
> asf-secure-rmcp 664/udp ASF Secure Remote Management and Control Protocol
>
> but the problem remains that we have no way to actually detect a
> motherboard that uses those ports.
My hackish solution was to create a fake xinetd service listening on
those ports.
http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2005-November/023606.html
For the one Dell server affected, we could DMI list
it; likewise for others.
--
Matt Domsch
Software Architect
Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com
-
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]
