From 444fc8fc3a1f926fa224655b8950bd853368c1a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Herbert Xu Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 14:18:10 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [IPV4]: Fix "Proxy ARP seems broken" Meelis Roos wrote: > RK> My firewall setup relies on proxyarp working. However, with 2.6.14-rc3, > RK> it appears to be completely broken. The firewall is 212.18.232.186, > > Same here with some kernel between 14-rc2 and 14-rc3 - no reposnse to > ARP on a proxyarp gateway. Sorry, no exact revison and no more debugging > yet since it'a a production gateway. The breakage is caused by the change to use the CB area for flagging whether a packet has been queued due to proxy_delay. This area gets cleared every time arp_rcv gets called. Unfortunately packets delayed due to proxy_delay also go through arp_rcv when they are reprocessed. In fact, I can't think of a reason why delayed proxy packets should go through netfilter again at all. So the easiest solution is to bypass that and go straight to arp_process. This is essentially what would've happened before netfilter support was added to ARP. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/arp.c | 11 +++++------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/arp.c b/net/ipv4/arp.c index 8bf312bdea1..ec0e36893b0 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/arp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/arp.c @@ -697,12 +697,6 @@ void arp_send(int type, int ptype, u32 dest_ip, arp_xmit(skb); } -static void parp_redo(struct sk_buff *skb) -{ - nf_reset(skb); - arp_rcv(skb, skb->dev, NULL, skb->dev); -} - /* * Process an arp request. */ @@ -922,6 +916,11 @@ out: return 0; } +static void parp_redo(struct sk_buff *skb) +{ + arp_process(skb); +} + /* * Receive an arp request from the device layer. -- 2.41.1