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2012-07-26ipv4: Fix input route performance regression.David S. Miller1-1/+1
With the routing cache removal we lost the "noref" code paths on input, and this can kill some routing workloads. Reinstate the noref path when we hit a cached route in the FIB nexthops. With help from Eric Dumazet. Reported-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-20ipv4: Adjust semantics of rt->rt_gateway.David S. Miller1-2/+1
In order to allow prefixed routes, we have to adjust how rt_gateway is set and interpreted. The new interpretation is: 1) rt_gateway == 0, destination is on-link, nexthop is iph->daddr 2) rt_gateway != 0, destination requires a nexthop gateway Abstract the fetching of the proper nexthop value using a new inline helper, rt_nexthop(), as suggested by Joe Perches. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Tested-by: Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@gmail.com>
2012-07-20ipv4: Kill ip_route_input_noref().David Miller1-1/+1
The "noref" argument to ip_route_input_common() is now always ignored because we do not cache routes, and in that case we must always grab a reference to the resulting 'dst'. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-27Revert "ipv4: tcp: dont cache unconfirmed intput dst"David S. Miller1-1/+1
This reverts commit c074da2810c118b3812f32d6754bd9ead2f169e7. This change has several unwanted side effects: 1) Sockets will cache the DST_NOCACHE route in sk->sk_rx_dst and we'll thus never create a real cached route. 2) All TCP traffic will use DST_NOCACHE and never use the routing cache at all. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-27ipv4: tcp: dont cache unconfirmed intput dstEric Dumazet1-1/+1
DDOS synflood attacks hit badly IP route cache. On typical machines, this cache is allowed to hold up to 8 Millions dst entries, 256 bytes for each, for a total of 2GB of memory. rt_garbage_collect() triggers and tries to cleanup things. Eventually route cache is disabled but machine is under fire and might OOM and crash. This patch exploits the new TCP early demux, to set a nocache boolean in case incoming TCP frame is for a not yet ESTABLISHED or TIMEWAIT socket. This 'nocache' boolean is then used in case dst entry is not found in route cache, to create an unhashed dst entry (DST_NOCACHE) SYN-cookie-ACK sent use a similar mechanism (ipv4: tcp: dont cache output dst for syncookies), so after this patch, a machine is able to absorb a DDOS synflood attack without polluting its IP route cache. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-12ipv4: Add interface option to enable routing of 127.0.0.0/8Thomas Graf1-1/+2
Routing of 127/8 is tradtionally forbidden, we consider packets from that address block martian when routing and do not process corresponding ARP requests. This is a sane default but renders a huge address space practically unuseable. The RFC states that no address within the 127/8 block should ever appear on any network anywhere but it does not forbid the use of such addresses outside of the loopback device in particular. For example to address a pool of virtual guests behind a load balancer. This patch adds a new interface option 'route_localnet' enabling routing of the 127/8 address block and processing of ARP requests on a specific interface. Note that for the feature to work, the default local route covering 127/8 dev lo needs to be removed. Example: $ sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.eth0.route_localnet=1 $ ip route del 127.0.0.0/8 dev lo table local $ ip addr add 127.1.0.1/16 dev eth0 $ ip route flush cache V2: Fix invalid check to auto flush cache (thanks davem) Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-16Merge branch 'delete-tokenring' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linuxDavid S. Miller1-12/+1
2012-05-16net: ipv4 and ipv6: Convert printk(KERN_DEBUG to pr_debugJoe Perches1-4/+5
Use the current debugging style and enable dynamic_debug. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-15net: delete all instances of special processing for token ringPaul Gortmaker1-12/+1
We are going to delete the Token ring support. This removes any special processing in the core networking for token ring, (aside from net/tr.c itself), leaving the drivers and remaining tokenring support present but inert. The mass removal of the drivers and net/tr.c will be in a separate commit, so that the history of these files that we still care about won't have the giant deletion tied into their history. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-04-15net: cleanup unsigned to unsigned intEric Dumazet1-2/+2
Use of "unsigned int" is preferred to bare "unsigned" in net tree. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-03-28Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.hDavid Howells1-1/+0
Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing it. Performed with the following command: perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>' *` Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2012-03-16arp: allow arp processing to honor per interface arp_accept sysctlNeil Horman1-1/+1
I found recently that the arp_process function which handles all of our received arp frames, is using IPV4_DEVCONF_ALL macro to check the state of the arp_process flag. This seems wrong, as it implies that either none or all of the network interfaces accept gratuitous arps. This patch corrects that, allowing per-interface arp_accept configuration to deviate from the all setting. Note this also brings us into line with the way the arp_filter setting is handled during arp_process execution. Tested this myself on my home network, and confirmed it works as expected. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-02-10net: Don't proxy arp respond if iif == rt->dst.dev if private VLAN is disabledThomas Graf1-1/+2
Commit 653241 (net: RFC3069, private VLAN proxy arp support) changed the behavior of arp proxy to send arp replies back out on the interface the request came in even if the private VLAN feature is disabled. Previously we checked rt->dst.dev != skb->dev for in scenarios, when proxy arp is enabled on for the netdevice and also when individual proxy neighbour entries have been added. This patch adds the check back for the pneigh_lookup() scenario. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-28ipv6: Use universal hash for NDISC.David S. Miller1-3/+3
In order to perform a proper universal hash on a vector of integers, we have to use different universal hashes on each vector element. Which means we need 4 different hash randoms for ipv6. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-06ipv4: arp: Cleanup in arp.cIgor Maravic1-10/+10
Use "IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FOO)" macro instead of "defined(CONFIG_FOO) || defined(CONFIG_FOO_MODULE)" Signed-off-by: Igor Maravic <igorm@etf.rs> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-11-30atm: clip: Use device neigh support on top of "arp_tbl".David Miller1-5/+0
Instead of instantiating an entire new neigh_table instance just for ATM handling, use the neigh device private facility. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-11-30neigh: Do not set tbl->entry_size in ipv4/ipv6 neigh tables.David Miller1-1/+0
Let the core self-size the neigh entry based upon the key length. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-11-18ipv4: Remove all uses of LL_ALLOCATED_SPACEHerbert Xu1-2/+4
ipv4: Remove all uses of LL_ALLOCATED_SPACE The macro LL_ALLOCATED_SPACE was ill-conceived. It applies the alignment to the sum of needed_headroom and needed_tailroom. As the amount that is then reserved for head room is needed_headroom with alignment, this means that the tail room left may be too small. This patch replaces all uses of LL_ALLOCATED_SPACE in net/ipv4 with the macro LL_RESERVED_SPACE and direct reference to needed_tailroom. This also fixes the problem with needed_headroom changing between allocating the skb and reserving the head room. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-11-14neigh: new unresolved queue limitsEric Dumazet1-1/+1
Le mercredi 09 novembre 2011 à 16:21 -0500, David Miller a écrit : > From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> > Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:16:44 -0500 (EST) > > > From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> > > Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:14:09 +0100 > > > >> unres_qlen is the number of frames we are able to queue per unresolved > >> neighbour. Its default value (3) was never changed and is responsible > >> for strange drops, especially if IP fragments are used, or multiple > >> sessions start in parallel. Even a single tcp flow can hit this limit. > > ... > > > > Ok, I've applied this, let's see what happens :-) > > Early answer, build fails. > > Please test build this patch with DECNET enabled and resubmit. The > decnet neigh layer still refers to the removed ->queue_len member. > > Thanks. Ouch, this was fixed on one machine yesterday, but not the other one I used this morning, sorry. [PATCH V5 net-next] neigh: new unresolved queue limits unres_qlen is the number of frames we are able to queue per unresolved neighbour. Its default value (3) was never changed and is responsible for strange drops, especially if IP fragments are used, or multiple sessions start in parallel. Even a single tcp flow can hit this limit. $ arp -d 192.168.20.108 ; ping -c 2 -s 8000 192.168.20.108 PING 192.168.20.108 (192.168.20.108) 8000(8028) bytes of data. 8008 bytes from 192.168.20.108: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.322 ms Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-17neigh: Pass neighbour entry to output ops.David S. Miller1-3/+3
This will get us closer to being able to do "neigh stuff" completely independent of the underlying dst_entry for protocols (ipv4/ipv6) that wish to do so. We will also be able to make dst entries neigh-less. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-16neigh: Kill ndisc_ops->queue_xmitDavid S. Miller1-5/+1
It is always dev_queue_xmit(). Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-16neigh: Kill neigh_ops->hh_outputDavid S. Miller1-4/+0
It's always dev_queue_xmit(). Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-13ipv4: Inline neigh binding.David Miller1-24/+0
Get rid of all of the useless and costly indirection by doing the neigh hash table lookup directly inside of the neighbour binding. Rename from arp_bind_neighbour to rt_bind_neighbour. Use new helpers {__,}ipv4_neigh_lookup() In rt_bind_neighbour() get rid of useless tests which are never true in the context this function is called, namely dev is never NULL and the dst->neighbour is always NULL. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-11ipv4: Use universal hash for ARP.David S. Miller1-2/+1
We need to make sure the multiplier is odd. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-30net: gre: provide multicast mappings for ipv4 and ipv6Timo Teräs1-0/+3
My commit 6d55cb91a0020ac0 (gre: fix hard header destination address checking) broke multicast. The reason is that ip_gre used to get ipgre_header() calls with zero destination if we have NOARP or multicast destination. Instead the actual target was decided at ipgre_tunnel_xmit() time based on per-protocol dissection. Instead of allowing the "abuse" of ->header() calls with invalid destination, this creates multicast mappings for ip_gre. This also fixes "ip neigh show nud noarp" to display the proper multicast mappings used by the gre device. Reported-by: Doug Kehn <rdkehn@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Timo Teräs <timo.teras@iki.fi> Acked-by: Doug Kehn <rdkehn@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-12ipv4: Create and use route lookup helpers.David S. Miller1-9/+3
The idea here is this minimizes the number of places one has to edit in order to make changes to how flows are defined and used. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-02ipv4: Make output route lookup return rtable directly.David S. Miller1-10/+9
Instead of on the stack. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-24net: arp_ioctl() must hold RTNLEric Dumazet1-6/+5
Commit 941666c2e3e0 "net: RCU conversion of dev_getbyhwaddr() and arp_ioctl()" introduced a regression, reported by Jamie Heilman. "arp -Ds 192.168.2.41 eth0 pub" triggered the ASSERT_RTNL() assert in pneigh_lookup() Removing RTNL requirement from arp_ioctl() was a mistake, just revert that part. Reported-by: Jamie Heilman <jamie@audible.transient.net> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-10arp: allow to invalidate specific ARP entriesMaxim Levitsky1-11/+18
IPv4 over firewire needs to be able to remove ARP entries from the ARP cache that belong to nodes that are removed, because IPv4 over firewire uses ARP packets for private information about nodes. This information becomes invalid as soon as node drops off the bus and when it reconnects, its only possible to start talking to it after it responded to an ARP packet. But ARP cache prevents such packets from being sent. Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-08net: RCU conversion of dev_getbyhwaddr() and arp_ioctl()Eric Dumazet1-8/+9
Le dimanche 05 décembre 2010 à 09:19 +0100, Eric Dumazet a écrit : > Hmm.. > > If somebody can explain why RTNL is held in arp_ioctl() (and therefore > in arp_req_delete()), we might first remove RTNL use in arp_ioctl() so > that your patch can be applied. > > Right now it is not good, because RTNL wont be necessarly held when you > are going to call arp_invalidate() ? While doing this analysis, I found a refcount bug in llc, I'll send a patch for net-2.6 Meanwhile, here is the patch for net-next-2.6 Your patch then can be applied after mine. Thanks [PATCH] net: RCU conversion of dev_getbyhwaddr() and arp_ioctl() dev_getbyhwaddr() was called under RTNL. Rename it to dev_getbyhwaddr_rcu() and change all its caller to now use RCU locking instead of RTNL. Change arp_ioctl() to use RCU instead of RTNL locking. Note: this fix a dev refcount bug in llc Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-06net: arp: use assignmentChangli Gao1-1/+1
Only when dont_send is 0, arp_filter() is consulted, so we can simply assign the return value of arp_filter() to dont_send instead. Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-17net: use the macros defined for the members of flowiChangli Gao1-6/+6
Use the macros defined for the members of flowi to clean the code up. Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-11neigh: Protect neigh->ha[] with a seqlockEric Dumazet1-4/+2
Add a seqlock in struct neighbour to protect neigh->ha[], and avoid dirtying neighbour in stress situation (many different flows / dsts) Dirtying takes place because of read_lock(&n->lock) and n->used writes. Switching to a seqlock, and writing n->used only on jiffies changes permits less dirtying. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-05net neigh: RCU conversion of neigh hash tableEric Dumazet1-3/+5
David This is the first step for RCU conversion of neigh code. Next patches will convert hash_buckets[] and "struct neighbour" to RCU protected objects. Thanks [PATCH net-next] net neigh: RCU conversion of neigh hash table Instead of storing hash_buckets, hash_mask and hash_rnd in "struct neigh_table", a new structure is defined : struct neigh_hash_table { struct neighbour **hash_buckets; unsigned int hash_mask; __u32 hash_rnd; struct rcu_head rcu; }; And "struct neigh_table" has an RCU protected pointer to such a neigh_hash_table. This means the signature of (*hash)() function changed: We need to add a third parameter with the actual hash_rnd value, since this is not anymore a neigh_table field. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-29arp: remove unnecessary export of arp_broken_opsstephen hemminger1-2/+1
arp_broken_ops is only used in arp.c Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-23net: return operator cleanupEric Dumazet1-1/+1
Change "return (EXPR);" to "return EXPR;" return is not a function, parentheses are not required. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-02net: arp: code cleanupChangli Gao1-103/+123
Clean the code up according to Documentation/CodingStyle. Don't initialize the variable dont_send in arp_process(). Remove the temporary varialbe flags in arp_state_to_flags(). Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-12net/ipv4: EXPORT_SYMBOL cleanupsEric Dumazet1-11/+7
CodingStyle cleanups EXPORT_SYMBOL should immediately follow the symbol declaration. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-25arp: RCU change in arp_solicit()Eric Dumazet1-5/+7
Avoid two atomic ops in arp_solicit() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-10net-next: remove useless union keywordChangli Gao1-6/+6
remove useless union keyword in rtable, rt6_info and dn_route. Since there is only one member in a union, the union keyword isn't useful. Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-03arp: RCU changesEric Dumazet1-7/+4
Avoid two atomic ops in arp_fwd_proxy() Avoid two atomic ops in arp_process() Valid optims since arp_rcv() is run under rcu_read_lock() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-17net: Use ip_route_input_noref() in input pathEric Dumazet1-1/+1
Use ip_route_input_noref() in ip fast path, to avoid two atomic ops per incoming packet. Note: loopback is excluded from this optimization in ip_rcv_finish() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-10net: Fix FDDI and TR config checks in ipv4 arp and LLC.David S. Miller1-3/+3
Need to check both CONFIG_FOO and CONFIG_FOO_MODULE Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-30include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.hTejun Heo1-0/+1
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-02-16net neigh: Decouple per interface neighbour table controls from binary sysctlsEric W. Biederman1-2/+1
Stop computing the number of neighbour table settings we have by counting the number of binary sysctls. This behaviour was silly and meant that we could not add another neighbour table setting without also adding another binary sysctl. Don't pass the binary sysctl path for neighour table entries into neigh_sysctl_register. These parameters are no longer used and so are just dead code. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-19ipv4: allow warming up the ARP cache with request type gratuitous ARPOctavian Purdila1-1/+2
If the per device ARP_ACCEPT option is enable, currently we only allow creating new ARP cache entries for response type gratuitous ARP. Allowing gratuitous ARP to create new ARP entries (not only to update existing ones) is useful when we want to avoid unnecessary delays for the first packet of a stream. This patch allows request type gratuitous ARP to create new ARP cache entries as well. This is useful when we want to populate the ARP cache entries for a large number of hosts on the same LAN. Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-07net: RFC3069, private VLAN proxy arp supportJesper Dangaard Brouer1-4/+48
This is to be used together with switch technologies, like RFC3069, that where the individual ports are not allowed to communicate with each other, but they are allowed to talk to the upstream router. As described in RFC 3069, it is possible to allow these hosts to communicate through the upstream router by proxy_arp'ing. This patch basically allow proxy arp replies back to the same interface (from which the ARP request/solicitation was received). Tunable per device via proc "proxy_arp_pvlan": /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/proxy_arp_pvlan This switch technology is known by different vendor names: - In RFC 3069 it is called VLAN Aggregation. - Cisco and Allied Telesyn call it Private VLAN. - Hewlett-Packard call it Source-Port filtering or port-isolation. - Ericsson call it MAC-Forced Forwarding (RFC Draft). Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-12sysctl net: Remove unused binary sysctl codeEric W. Biederman1-1/+1
Now that sys_sysctl is a compatiblity wrapper around /proc/sys all sysctl strategy routines, and all ctl_name and strategy entries in the sysctl tables are unused, and can be revmoed. In addition neigh_sysctl_register has been modified to no longer take a strategy argument and it's callers have been modified not to pass one. Cc: "David Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-09-01net: make neigh_ops constantStephen Hemminger1-4/+4
These tables are never modified at runtime. Move to read-only section. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-30ipv4: ARP neigh procfs buffer overflowroel kluin1-1/+3
If arp_format_neigh_entry() can be called with n->dev->addr_len == 0, then a write to hbuffer[-1] occurs. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>