Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751718AbWEaRHg (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 13:07:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751163AbWEaRHg (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 13:07:36 -0400 Received: from cs1.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.16.10]:34571 "EHLO cs1.cs.huji.ac.il") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751156AbWEaRHg (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 13:07:36 -0400 Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 20:07:34 +0300 (IDT) From: Amnon Aaronsohn To: netdev@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] don't automatically drop packets from 0.0.0.0/8 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1012 Lines: 24 For some reason linux drops all incoming packets which have a source address in the 0.0.0.0/8 range, although these are valid addresses. The attached patch fixes this. (It still drops packets coming from 0.0.0.0 since that's a special address.) Signed-off-by: Amnon Aaronsohn --- --- linux-2.6.16.18/net/ipv4/route.c.old 2006-05-30 08:57:42.000000000 +0300 +++ linux-2.6.16.18/net/ipv4/route.c 2006-05-30 08:58:22.000000000 +0300 @@ -1935,7 +1935,7 @@ static int ip_route_input_slow(struct sk /* Accept zero addresses only to limited broadcast; * I even do not know to fix it or not. Waiting for complains :-) */ - if (ZERONET(saddr)) + if (saddr == 0) goto martian_source; if (BADCLASS(daddr) || ZERONET(daddr) || LOOPBACK(daddr)) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/