RFC kern/9448 (was Re: Two network-related PRs)

[Roman Kurakin]

Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
>   Good day!
>  I've made two PRs (and pathes for them) that are related to the networking
> subsystem.
>
>  URL: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=94408
>  Name: kern/94408: if_bridge breaks proxy ARP functionality
>  Description:
> Proxy ARP entries will not be correctly processed if they belongs to the
> bridged interface: other interface from this bridge will not get the replies
> for this ARP record.
>
>  URL: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=94448
>  Name: kern/94448: if_bridge modifies IP length and offset fields for
> broadcast packets
>  Description:
> In some curcumstances if_bridge will modify the 'length' and 'offset' fields
> of IP packet for Ethernet broadcasts: bytes will be transformed from the
> network to the host byte order.
>   
This one looks very serious. Some code after pf could modify packet and 
all other copies
would also be modified. Patch looks good for me.

rik
>  Please, have a look. If anyone can try this patches, I will be glad to
> hear about the results. I'll be glad if someone will commit them into
> -CURRENT, 6.x and 5.x.
>
>  Thanks!
>