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2006-02-23[NET] ethernet: Fix first packet goes out with MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00Jamal Hadi Salim
When you turn off ARP on a netdevice then the first packet always goes out with a dstMAC of all zeroes. This is because the first packet is used to resolve ARP entries. Even though the ARP entry may be resolved (I tried by setting a static ARP entry for a host i was pinging from), it gets overwritten by virtue of having the netdevice disabling ARP. Subsequent packets go out fine with correct dstMAC address (which may be why people have ignored reporting this issue). To cut the story short: the culprit code is in net/ethernet/eth.c::eth_header() ---- /* * Anyway, the loopback-device should never use this function... */ if (dev->flags & (IFF_LOOPBACK|IFF_NOARP)) { memset(eth->h_dest, 0, dev->addr_len); return ETH_HLEN; } if(daddr) { memcpy(eth->h_dest,daddr,dev->addr_len); return ETH_HLEN; } ---- Note how the h_dest is being reset when device has IFF_NOARP. As a note: All devices including loopback pass a daddr. loopback in fact passes a 0 all the time ;-> This means i can delete the check totaly or i can remove the IFF_NOARP Alexey says: -------------------- I think, it was me who did this crap. It was so long ago I do not remember why it was made. I remember some troubles with dummy device. It tried to resolve addresses, apparently, without success and generated errors instead of blackholing. I think the problem was eventually solved at neighbour level. After some thinking I suspect the deletion of this chunk could change behaviour of some parts which do not use neighbour cache f.e. packet socket. I think safer approach would be to move this chunk after if (daddr). And the possibility to remove this completely could be analyzed later. -------------------- Patch updated with Alexey's safer suggestions. Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-06[NET]: Use newer is_multicast_ether_addr() in some filesKris Katterjohn
This uses is_multicast_ether_addr() because it has recently been changed to do the same thing these seperate tests are doing. Signed-off-by: Kris Katterjohn <kjak@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-05[NET]: Change 1500 to ETH_DATA_LEN in some filesKris Katterjohn
These patches add the header linux/if_ether.h and change 1500 to ETH_DATA_LEN in some files. Signed-off-by: Kris Katterjohn <kjak@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-10-29[ETH]: ether address compareStephen Hemminger
Expose faster ether compare for use by protocols and other driver. And change name to be more consistent with other ether address manipulation routines in same file Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-09-28[NET]: Fix reversed logic in eth_type_trans().David S. Miller
I got the second compare_eth_addr() test reversed, oops. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-27[NET]: Slightly optimize ethernet address comparison.David S. Miller
We know the thing is at least 2-byte aligned, so take advantage of that instead of invoking memcmp() which results in truly horrifically inefficient code because it can't assume anything about alignment. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29[NET]: Fix sparse warningsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Of this type, mostly: CHECK net/ipv6/netfilter.c net/ipv6/netfilter.c:96:12: warning: symbol 'ipv6_netfilter_init' was not declared. Should it be static? net/ipv6/netfilter.c:101:6: warning: symbol 'ipv6_netfilter_fini' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29[NET]: Remove explicit initializations of skb->input_devDavid S. Miller
Instead, set it in one place, namely the beginning of netif_receive_skb(). Based upon suggestions from Jamal Hadi Salim. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-12[NET]: __be'ify *_type_trans()Alexey Dobriyan
tr_type_trans(), hippi_type_trans() left as-is. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-28[NET]: Micro optimization in eth_header()Denis Vlasenko
Signed-off-by: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-05[PATCH] update Ross Biro bouncing email addressJesper Juhl
Ross moved. Remove the bad email address so people will find the correct one in ./CREDITS. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!