Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:53:40 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org> To: Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com> Cc: "'Wes Peters'" <wes@softweyr.com>, Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sockets and changing IP addresses Message-ID: <200211212153.gALLreeX067352@arch20m.dellroad.org> In-Reply-To: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C8533701022FEB@mail.sandvine.com>
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Don Bowman wrote: > > > I'm curious what -net's opinion is on PR kern/38544: > > > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/38554 > > > > > > In summary: if you have a connected socket whose local IP address > > > is X, and then change the interface IP address from X to Y, then > > > packets written out by the socket will continue to be transmitted > > > with source IP address X. > > > > > > Do people agree that this is a bug and should be fixed? > > > > Yes. The other end can't possibly reply to address X, so the > > connection is broken at this point. > > I think the current behaviour is correct. Since the IP->MAC lookup > will remain cached, the communication will continue to work to the old > IP. Changing the IP on the connected socket will make the connection > drop. The best case is the the way it works. What you're saying doesn't make sense to me. First of all, this has nothing to do with ARP tables (although you are right that the router's ARP entry for the old IP address will remain valid). Secondly, the communiation will NOT work because the host will drop packets sent to it with the (now) wrong IP address. The current behavior is bad because the application does not ever receive any notification that the socket it's using is no longer valid. -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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