Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 22:31:53 +0000 From: John Howie <john@thehowies.com> To: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>, "net@freebsd.org" <net@freebsd.org> Cc: Daniel Corbe <corbe@corbe.net> Subject: Re: Socket bound to 0.0.0.0 never receives broadcasts with non-zero IP source address Message-ID: <D14B21F3.3D5E8%john@thehowies.com> In-Reply-To: <55259BC7.6040502@rawbw.com> References: <55248957.60109@rawbw.com> <878ue2n6lu.fsf@corbe.net> <55259BC7.6040502@rawbw.com>
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Hi Yuri,
Is your machine a router or gateway, or have a firewall? Are you trying to
capture all broadcast packets, or just UDP targeted and broadcast packets
to a particular port?
Regards,
John
On 4/8/15, 5:21 PM, "Yuri" <yuri@rawbw.com> wrote:
>On 04/08/2015 05:32, Daniel Corbe wrote:
>> If nobody answers this question by the time I get home I'll try and
>> help; however, in the mean time I do have a couple of suggestions.
>>
>> Have you tried writing the equivalent program in C using the sockets
>> API? IE is this a python specific problem or a sockets problem in
>> general?
>>
>> The second thing is you may just want to try using raw sockets instead.
>
>I verified before with ktrace, and now, following your suggestion,
>rewrote it in C, and result is the same.
>When I change SOCK_DGRAM->SOCK_RAW it keeps getting some other packets,
>sin_port doesn't seem to matter. Also, UDP is the practically important
>case.
>
>Unless there is some reasonable explanation why ip source address can
>influence reception, I believe this is a bug in kernel. And pretty
>important one, because it can hurt DHCP servers.
>
>Yuri
>
>
>--- C program exhibiting the problem ---
>
>#include <sys/types.h>
>#include <sys/socket.h>
>#include <stdio.h>
>#include <stdlib.h>
>#include <netinet/in.h>
>
>#define CK(func, call...) if ((call) < 0) {perror(#func); exit(1);}
>
>int main() {
> int sock, one =3D 1;
> ssize_t count;
> struct sockaddr_in sa;
> char buffer[4096];
> struct sockaddr_storage src_addr;
>
> struct iovec iov[1];
> iov[0].iov_base=3Dbuffer;
> iov[0].iov_len=3Dsizeof(buffer);
>
> struct msghdr msg;
> msg.msg_name=3D&src_addr;
> msg.msg_namelen=3Dsizeof(src_addr);
> msg.msg_iov=3Diov;
> msg.msg_iovlen=3D1;
> msg.msg_control=3D0;
> msg.msg_controllen=3D0;
>
> CK(socket, sock =3D socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP))
> CK(setsockopt, setsockopt(sock, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, &one,
>sizeof(one)))
> CK(setsockopt, setsockopt(sock, SOL_SOCKET, SO_BROADCAST, &one,
>sizeof(one)))
> sa.sin_family =3D AF_INET;
> sa.sin_addr.s_addr =3D htonl(INADDR_ANY);
> //sa.sin_port =3D htons(67);
> sa.sin_port =3D htons(1767);
> CK(bind, bind(sock, (const struct sockaddr*)&sa, sizeof(sa)))
>
> printf("Waiting for broadcast\n");
> CK(recvmsg, count =3D recvmsg(sock, &msg, 0))
> printf("Received broadcast packet: %zd bytes\n", count);
>
> return 0;
>}
>
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