On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 14:08:53 -0800
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote:
> as a birthday present to everyone I'll also add an IN_DEV_ARP_IGNORE
> flag for inet devices to so people can control
> complete ARP ignoring via a global/per-device sysctl.
Ok, does this do what everyone wants? Speak now or forever hold your peace
on this issue :-)
I'll add this to 2.6.x and 2.4.x if folks are OK with it. Write this date
down on your calendars, I doubt I'll capitulate like this ever again 8-)
===== Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt 1.20 vs edited =====
--- 1.20/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt Mon Feb 2 10:20:58 2004
+++ edited/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt Mon Feb 9 14:08:57 2004
@@ -499,6 +499,15 @@
conf/{all,interface}/arp_filter is set to TRUE,
it will be disabled otherwise
+arp_ignore - BOOLEAN
+ 0 - (default) Process ARP requests.
+ 1 - Ignore ARP requests.
+
+ ARP requests received on a given interface will be ignored if
+ at least one of conf/{all,interface}/arp_ignore is set to TRUE.
+ ARP requests will be processed otherwise (barring any other
+ restrictive controls such as 'arp_filter' documented above).
+
tag - INTEGER
Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required.
Default value is 0.
===== include/linux/inetdevice.h 1.7 vs edited =====
--- 1.7/include/linux/inetdevice.h Thu Jan 29 14:57:46 2004
+++ edited/include/linux/inetdevice.h Mon Feb 9 14:09:31 2004
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
int mc_forwarding;
int tag;
int arp_filter;
+ int arp_ignore;
int medium_id;
int no_xfrm;
int no_policy;
@@ -71,6 +72,7 @@
(ipv4_devconf.accept_redirects || (in_dev)->cnf.accept_redirects)))
#define IN_DEV_ARPFILTER(in_dev) (ipv4_devconf.arp_filter || (in_dev)->cnf.arp_filter)
+#define IN_DEV_ARPIGNORE(in_dev) (ipv4_devconf.arp_ignore || (in_dev)->cnf.arp_ignore)
struct in_ifaddr
{
===== include/linux/sysctl.h 1.60 vs edited =====
--- 1.60/include/linux/sysctl.h Fri Feb 6 19:37:57 2004
+++ edited/include/linux/sysctl.h Mon Feb 9 14:09:51 2004
@@ -362,6 +362,7 @@
NET_IPV4_CONF_NOXFRM=15,
NET_IPV4_CONF_NOPOLICY=16,
NET_IPV4_CONF_FORCE_IGMP_VERSION=17,
+ NET_IPV4_CONF_ARP_IGNORE=18,
};
/* /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter */
===== net/ipv4/arp.c 1.36 vs edited =====
--- 1.36/net/ipv4/arp.c Fri Feb 6 16:00:17 2004
+++ edited/net/ipv4/arp.c Mon Feb 9 14:10:27 2004
@@ -779,7 +779,9 @@
n = neigh_event_ns(&arp_tbl, sha, &sip, dev);
if (n) {
int dont_send = 0;
- if (IN_DEV_ARPFILTER(in_dev))
+ if (IN_DEV_ARPIGNORE(in_dev))
+ dont_send = 1;
+ else if (IN_DEV_ARPFILTER(in_dev))
dont_send |= arp_filter(sip,tip,dev);
if (!dont_send)
arp_send(ARPOP_REPLY,ETH_P_ARP,sip,dev,tip,sha,dev->dev_addr,sha);
===== net/ipv4/devinet.c 1.24 vs edited =====
--- 1.24/net/ipv4/devinet.c Thu Jan 29 14:57:46 2004
+++ edited/net/ipv4/devinet.c Mon Feb 9 14:12:38 2004
@@ -1132,7 +1132,7 @@
static struct devinet_sysctl_table {
struct ctl_table_header *sysctl_header;
- ctl_table devinet_vars[18];
+ ctl_table devinet_vars[19];
ctl_table devinet_dev[2];
ctl_table devinet_conf_dir[2];
ctl_table devinet_proto_dir[2];
@@ -1277,6 +1277,14 @@
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = &ipv4_doint_and_flush,
.strategy = &ipv4_doint_and_flush_strategy,
+ },
+ {
+ .ctl_name = NET_IPV4_CONF_ARP_IGNORE,
+ .procname = "arp_ignore",
+ .data = &ipv4_devconf.arp_ignore,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(int),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
},
},
.devinet_dev = {
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