From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Interface without IP address can route??
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:20:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E5443CD.60502@candelatech.com> (raw)
I just noticed on a 3.0.1 kernel that the system is routing packets
received on an interface without an IP address. (I was trying to use the
interface in a user-space wifi_station-to-wired bridge application).
[root@lf0301-demo1 lanforge]# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/sta1/forwarding
1
[root@lf0301-demo1 lanforge]# ifconfig sta1
sta1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:2D:12:16:0D
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:85248 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1419 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:67423391 (64.2 MiB) TX bytes:1087581 (1.0 MiB)
Seems that older stock kernels have forwarding set for interfaces without
IP addresses too, so maybe it's always been this way...
Anyway, I can add some logic to my config to explicitly disable
routing for interfaces w/out IP address, but it seems to me that
it should automatically not route packets received on an interface
that had no IP address on it..
Thanks,
Ben
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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next reply other threads:[~2011-08-24 0:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-24 0:20 Ben Greear [this message]
2011-08-24 13:01 ` Interface without IP address can route?? jamal
2011-08-24 13:24 ` Ben Greear
2011-08-24 16:15 ` David Lamparter
2011-08-24 16:20 ` Ben Greear
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