BUG: Network: Duplicate MAC adress response in multihomed system : All Kernels

["Lehner Franz" <franz@caos.at>]

Maybe it is a setting, i have searched everywhere, but this is really
mysterious

take a linux, configure this kind

eth0: 192.168.10.200 / 255.255.255.0
eth1: 192.168.10.201 / 255.255.255.0

Both Interfaces are "real ethernet cards" and are connected to same
switch

if you take now a 3'rd machine, and do a

arping  -c 1 192.168.10.200
>60 bytes from 00:0c:29:bc:96:fe ( 192.168.10.200): index=0 time=645.876
usec
>60 bytes from 00:0c:29:bc:96:f4 ( 192.168.10.200): index=1 time=1.472
msec

arping  -c 1 192.168.10.201
>60 bytes from 00:0c:29:bc:96:fe (192.168.10.201 ): index=0 time=833.988
usec
>60 bytes from 00:0c:29:bc:96:f4 (192.168.10.201): index=1 time=1.211
msec

in fact, this is "fuck" as arp table of switches and other machines
are not knowing what to do

compared to Windows2000, Windows just gives you "one" entry back, (and
YES: the real too...)

This "bug" is in 2.4.x ( i tested may of them) and 2.6.x (not tested
all, but it is exisintg in ubuntu with 2.6.15) ,  not sure about 2.x

from my reading of RFC, this is "not legal" and even made it possible,
that my switch killed the server, because as he thought, i am spoofing
him.

It gets much more funny, when you have 3 network cards running :-)
then you get 3 replys :-)

# arping  -c 1 192.168.10.200
ARPING 192.168.10.200
60 bytes from 00:0c:29:bc:96:08 (192.168.10.200 ): index=0 time=499.010
usec
60 bytes from 00:0c:29:bc:96:fe (192.168.10.200): index=1 time=878.096
usec
60 bytes from 00:0c:29:bc:96:f4 ( 192.168.10.200 ): index=2 time=1.163
msec

--- 192.168.10.200 statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, -200% unanswered

.....

btw:
control, if you have spoofing filter active
if you have a spoofing filter active, like in debian, kill ist
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter

the system answers on both IP (or 3 ipadresse) always with the same mac
address
with filter disabled, the above phaenomn will come again.

Yes, i think this is a bug.

Personally, i think, it is a bug in the IP stack, as "all interfaces"
receive the Broadcast, and then,
arp_send(ARPOP_REPLY,ETH_P_ARP,sip,dev,tip,sha,dev->dev_addr,sha);
answers
but it answers the request on all interfaces, with the "MAC" of the
interface, which comes from dev->dev_addr


regards
Lehner Franz

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