HEADSUP: arp-v2 has been committed

Remko Lodder remko at elvandar.org
Fri Dec 19 13:00:03 PST 2008


Hello,

I for one, can confirm that the fix from this morning resolved my  
problems :-)

Cheers
remko

On Dec 19, 2008, at 6:33 PM, Li, Qing wrote:

>
> I checked in a fix earlier this morning, sync-up and give it a try.
>
> -- Qing
>
> Revision 1.188: download - view: text, markup, annotated - select  
> for diffs
> Fri Dec 19 11:07:34 2008 UTC (6 hours, 26 minutes ago) by qingli
> Branches: MAIN
> CVS tags: HEAD
> Diff to: previous 1.187: preferred, colored
> Changes since revision 1.187: +52 -57 lines
>
> SVN rev 186317 on 2008-12-19 11:07:34Z by qingli
>
> The proxy-arp code was broken and responds to ARP
> requests for addresses that are not proxied locally.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org on behalf of Vladimir  
> Grebenschikov
> Sent: Fri 12/19/2008 9:04 AM
> To: Qing Li
> Cc: freebsd-net at freebsd.org; freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: HEADSUP: arp-v2 has been committed
>
> On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 15:42 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:34:13 GMT, Qing Li <qingli at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> The arp-v2 changes have been committed into HEAD.
>>> Please report problems to me and Kip Macy.
>
> Nice, my host sends arp-reply about other hosts
>
> my host has MAC address 00:19:7d:8c:0b:44:
>
> 19:59:39.409151 00:13:e8:d5:0f:63 > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, ethertype ARP  
> (0x0806), length 60: arp who-has 10.24.11.35 tell 10.24.11.42
>>> it got broadcast arp request from some host
>
>
> 19:59:39.409163 00:19:7d:8c:0b:44 > 00:13:e8:d5:0f:63, ethertype ARP  
> (0x0806), length 42: arp reply 10.24.11.35 is-at 00:13:e8:d5:0f:63
>>> it replies - IP you seeking for is on your MAC address
>
> some OS do put entries based on such bogus arp reply on their arp  
> tables
>
> Looks as serious problem of ARP stack.
>
> -- 
> Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
> vova at fbsd.ru
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