Re: IPX broadcast forwarding in 2.4.1 kernels

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Em Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 07:55:34PM +0000, Petr Vandrovec escreveu:
> On  1 Mar 01 at 19:02, J.R. de Jong wrote:
> > 
> > 18:52:26.807269 0:d0:b7:18:62:e3 > Broadcast sap e0 ui/C
> > 
> > Now, I've looked at the following cases:
> > 
> > kernel 2.2.15: No broadcasts.
> > kernel 2.4.2-ac6 with Arnaldo's patch: Broadcasting.
> > kernel 2.4.2-ac6 with Arnaldo's patch and including '&& 0' in the pprop
> > code: No broadcasts.
> 
> Can you send full tcpdump log here? If you want only IPX packets, you
> can try ipxdump + ipxparse from ncpfs package.
> 
> And did you have only one frame (802.2) configured in Linux, or does
> your Linux run with more than one frame, or in --auto_interface=on mode?
> 
> If you have more than one frame, your machine will broadcasts if someone
> else (Win98) will put frame back to wire... It is correct from protocol
> side (but maybe not correct from IT department point of view; that's why
> I want /proc/sys/net/conf/*/forwarding and netbios_forwarding items - but
> if I want them, maybe I should code them myself ;-) ).

Petr, if you don't do it today, tomorrow for sure I'll have a patch that
implements this, cause tonight its IPX hacking night, my wife will be away
till 10 pm ;)

- Arnaldo
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