On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > Em Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 09:54:48PM +0000, Petr Vandrovec escreveu: > > On 27 Feb 01 at 20:51, J.R. de Jong wrote: > > > > > Are you sure you are running this configuration? What says > > > > > cat /proc/net/ipx* ? Kernel should not forward anything if you have only > > > > > one frame configured... There are some IPX forwarding fixes in 2.4.2-acX, > > > > > btw. > > > > Hi Arnaldo, > > I have some questions... I have IPX router specification here on > > screen and on page 56 it says: > > == > > The router places the address of the network segment on which packet arrived > > into the next available Network Number field. The offset of this > > field is easily calculated as 4*n bytes past the end of the IPX header, > > where n is the value of the Transport Control field. > > == > > Code in ac4 stores outgoing interface number here, if I parsed code > > correctly... This has another fatal side effect: it is propagated even > > back to interface on which type 20 packet arrived, so now even machines > > with one interface are network killers :-( (if you have one windows > > and twenty such linuxes, each netbios broadcast is seen 21 times on network; > > on other side it has nice effect that these linuxes ignore netbios broadcasts > > routed by other linuxes). > > > Either store intrfc->if_netnum into packet before loop with '/* That aren't > > in the list */', or do explicit check for ifcs != intrfc. But storing number > > before looks better - code in ipxrtr_route_skb() does not know receiving > > interface anyway, and you want same number in all copies. > > > > I hope that I missed something obvious. If not, then peoples in larger > > networks should add some '&& 0' into pprop code to disable it. > > I'm looking at it now, routing is a part I've not messed with that much > still > > > Best regards, > > Petr Vandrovec > > vandrove@vc.cvut.cz > > > > P.S.: IPX router specification & NLSP 1.1 specification are available at > > http://developer.novell.com/devres/langrp/specs.htm. > > thank you for this pointer, any other further IPX information is more than > welcome > > - Arnaldo > Hi Arnaldo and Petr, I take it that the best option for IPX users right now is to stick with 2.2.x kernels until the problem has been solved? - Johan - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
