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From: "Mantas M." <grawity@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: "martian source" mixes up source and destination
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:37:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jnh9tl$rth$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)

After enabling the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/log_martians sysctl, I've
been receiving the following messages on dmesg:

> martian source 255.255.255.255 from 192.168.1.115, on dev wlan0
> ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:f4:6d:04:85:fc:d7:08:00
> martian source 192.168.1.255 from 192.168.1.115, on dev wlan0
> ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:f4:6d:04:85:fc:d7:08:00
> martian source 192.168.1.255 from 192.168.1.115, on dev wlan0
> ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:f4:6d:04:85:fc:d7:08:00
> <later>
> martian source 255.255.255.255 from 192.168.1.183, on dev eth0
> ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:48:5d:60:e8:65:8f:08:00

However, the packets are *not* martians, but legitimate broadcast
UDP/IPv4 packets: they have the *destination* as 255.255.255.255 or
192.168.1.255, with the source being 192.168.1.115 (wlan0 on this
device) for the first three packets, and 192.168.1.183 (eth0) on the
fourth.

Linux 3.3.4-1-ARCH on Arch Linux

-- 
Mantas M. <grawity@gmail.com>


             reply	other threads:[~2012-04-28 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-28 17:37 Mantas M. [this message]
2012-04-29  4:52 ` "martian source" mixes up source and destination Michael Tokarev

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