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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: "Prashant Batra (prbatra)" <prbatra@cisco.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: route problem
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:15:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1326881723.2316.2.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B97B134FACB2024DB45F524AB0A7B7F2058B020A@XMB-BGL-419.cisco.com>

Le mercredi 18 janvier 2012 à 15:38 +0530, Prashant Batra (prbatra) a
écrit :
> 2.6.18 kernel.
> 

Please dont top post on netdev mailing list

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Dumazet [mailto:eric.dumazet@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 2:58 PM
> To: Prashant Batra (prbatra)
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: route problem
> 
> Le mercredi 18 janvier 2012 à 14:47 +0530, Prashant Batra (prbatra) a
> écrit :
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have added a route for an external ip via a gateway which is available
> > on the same machine.
> > I want to capture the packets going to this external IP using PF_PACKET
> > socket.
> > 
> > #route 
> > Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
> > Iface
> > 192.168.101.0   *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0
> > eth1
> > 172.16.60.0     192.168.101.10  255.255.255.0   UG    0      0        0
> > eth1
> > 
> > So, when a packet is sent to 172.16.60.*, kernel should send arp request
> > for this gw IP 192.168.101.10. As gw IP is locally reachable, 
> > It should send its mac address in arp-response and kernel should send
> > the packet via that interface.
> > 
> > But what I am seeing is that instead of asking the gateway IP, kernel
> > sends a arp request for destingation ip(172.16.60.*)
> > 
> > #tcpdump -I eth1
> > 04:12:45.334966 arp who-has 172.16.60.2 tell 192.168.101.20
> > 04:12:46.334839 arp who-has 172.16.60.2 tell 192.168.101.20
> > 04:12:48.334584 arp who-has 172.16.60.2 tell 192.168.101.20
> > 04:12:49.334457 arp who-has 172.16.60.2 tell 192.168.101.20
> > 04:12:50.335329 arp who-has 172.16.60.2 tell 192.168.101.20
> > 04:12:52.335075 arp who-has 172.16.60.2 tell 192.168.101.20
> > 04:12:53.334947 arp who-has 172.16.60.2 tell 192.168.101.20
> > 04:12:54.334821 arp who-has 172.16.60.2 tell 192.168.101.20
> > 

This comes from another machine, since your eth1 addr is 192.168.101.10

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-18 10:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-18  9:17 route problem Prashant Batra (prbatra)
2012-01-18  9:27 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-01-18 10:08   ` Prashant Batra (prbatra)
2012-01-18 10:15     ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2012-01-19  1:29       ` Bill Fink
2012-01-19  5:53         ` Prashant Batra (prbatra)
2012-01-19  6:50         ` Eric Dumazet

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