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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash•net>
To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat•com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: no reassembly for outgoing packets on RAW socket
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:03:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C08EB85.3050900@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100604112708.GA1958@jolsa.lab.eng.brq.redhat.com>

Jiri Olsa wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I'd like to be able to sendout a single IP packet with MF flag set.
> 
> When using RAW sockets the packet will get stuck in the
> netfilter (NF_INET_LOCAL_OUT nf_defrag_ipv4 reassembly unit)
> and wont ever make it out..
> 
> I made a change which bypass the outgoing reassembly for
> RAW sockets, but I'm not sure wether it's too invasive..

That would break reassembly (and thus connection tracking) for cases
where its really intended.

> Is there any standard for RAW sockets behaviour?
> Or another way around? :)

You could use the NOTRACK target to bypass connection tracking.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-04 12:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-04 11:27 no reassembly for outgoing packets on RAW socket Jiri Olsa
2010-06-04 12:03 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2010-06-07 14:55   ` Jiri Olsa
2010-06-09 14:16     ` Patrick McHardy
2010-06-09 15:15       ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-06-09 15:16         ` Patrick McHardy
2010-06-09 15:20           ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-06-10  6:57             ` Jiri Olsa
2010-06-10  6:56       ` Jiri Olsa
2010-06-10  9:14         ` Patrick McHardy
2010-06-10  9:53           ` Jiri Olsa
2010-06-10 10:04             ` Patrick McHardy
2010-06-11  8:16               ` Jiri Olsa
2010-06-11  9:53                 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-06-11 13:10                   ` Jiri Olsa
2010-06-15  6:53                     ` [PATCH] net: IP_NODEFRAG option for IPv4 socket Jiri Olsa
2010-06-15  7:13                       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-06-15  9:18                         ` Jiri Olsa
2010-06-15  9:49                           ` Eric Dumazet

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