kern/103950: [netinet] [patch] Broadcast packets are not forwarded

Damien Deville damien.deville at netasq.com
Wed Oct 11 03:01:15 PDT 2006


The following reply was made to PR kern/103950; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Damien Deville <damien.deville at netasq.com>
To: Yar Tikhiy <yar at comp.chem.msu.su>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/103950: [netinet] [patch] Broadcast packets are not forwarded
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:52:54 +0200

 Hi,
 
 We did not tested the fast forward path as our setup need it to be disabled.
 
 Damien
 
 Yar Tikhiy wrote:
 > This case is well-known as directed broadcasts.  FreeBSD might have
 > it disabled on purpose.  See RFC 2644 aka BCP 34.
 > 
 > Formerly there was a sysctl for enabling directed broadcasts,
 > IPCTL_DIRECTEDBROADCAST aka "directed-broadcast", obtained from
 > NetBSD -- see netinet/in.h rev. 1.11 and netinet/ip_input.c rev.
 > 1.26.  Its definition still is in netinet/in.h but unused.  It can
 > be just re-introduced.  See NetBSD's netinet/ip_input.c for example,
 > search for "ip_directedbcast".
 > 
 > Apropos, did you test how the fastforward path would handle directed
 > broadcasts?
 > 
 
 
 -- 
 Damien Deville
 R&D engineer
 damien.deville at netasq.com
 http://www.netasq.com


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