Re: skb / netif_rx problems

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On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Wolfgang Wegner wrote:

> I tried to let the packets have the host's own IP address as a source
> address, but then they are discarded - is there any option that i
> could set to avoid this? I can get away with another address, but it
> would seem more clean to me with the own address.

I think thats got to do with something in fib_validate_source() which 
drops all packets injected with the source address which is the same as 
host's address.

This link described a similar problem:
http://lists.insecure.org/linux-kernel/2002/Mar/0995.html


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