Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:00:40 GMT From: Damien Deville <damien.deville@netasq.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/103950: [netinet] [patch] Broadcast packets are not forwarded Message-ID: <200610111000.k9BA0eXP044688@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/103950; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Damien Deville <damien.deville@netasq.com> To: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su> Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/103950: [netinet] [patch] Broadcast packets are not forwarded Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:52:54 +0200 Hi, We did not tested the fast forward path as our setup need it to be disabled. Damien Yar Tikhiy wrote: > This case is well-known as directed broadcasts. FreeBSD might have > it disabled on purpose. See RFC 2644 aka BCP 34. > > Formerly there was a sysctl for enabling directed broadcasts, > IPCTL_DIRECTEDBROADCAST aka "directed-broadcast", obtained from > NetBSD -- see netinet/in.h rev. 1.11 and netinet/ip_input.c rev. > 1.26. Its definition still is in netinet/in.h but unused. It can > be just re-introduced. See NetBSD's netinet/ip_input.c for example, > search for "ip_directedbcast". > > Apropos, did you test how the fastforward path would handle directed > broadcasts? > -- Damien Deville R&D engineer damien.deville@netasq.com http://www.netasq.com
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