Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 31 May 2006 20:07:34 +0300 (IDT) | From | Amnon Aaronsohn <> | Subject | [PATCH] don't automatically drop packets from 0.0.0.0/8 |
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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 <bla@cs.huji.ac.il> ---
--- 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;
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