From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 2/2] udp: add sk opt to allow sending pkt with src 0.0.0.0 Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 15:00:24 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20131114.150024.679596278327684470.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1383958474-6255-2-git-send-email-nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> <20131111.001803.110603937316567461.davem@davemloft.net> <20131114143154.GD26901@order.stressinduktion.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, David.Laight@ACULAB.COM, jiri@resnulli.us, vyasevich@gmail.com, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@trash.net, thaller@redhat.com, stephen@networkplumber.org To: hannes@stressinduktion.org Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:52353 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755568Ab3KNUA1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Nov 2013 15:00:27 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20131114143154.GD26901@order.stressinduktion.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Hannes Frederic Sowa Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 15:31:54 +0100 > Do you have an idea how to deal with the rp_filter issue if no ip > address is set? Should we relax it in such cases? I think it is kind of pointless to protect ourselves from locally generated packets, for which the flow ID was explicitly asked for by the application. So yes I think relaxing rp_filter in such cases makes sense.