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From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind•com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: hannes@stressinduktion•org, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	David.Laight@ACULAB•COM, jiri@resnulli•us, vyasevich@gmail•com,
	kuznet@ms2•inr.ac.ru, jmorris@namei•org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6•org,
	kaber@trash•net, thaller@redhat•com, stephen@networkplumber•org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 2/2] udp: add sk opt to allow sending pkt with src 0.0.0.0
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 14:05:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5284CA7C.7030402@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131111.001803.110603937316567461.davem@davemloft.net>

Le 11/11/2013 06:18, David Miller a écrit :
> From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind•com>
> Date: Sat,  9 Nov 2013 01:54:34 +0100
>
>> This feature allows to a send packets with address source set to 0.0.0.0 even if
>> an ip address is available on another interface.
>>
>> It's useful for DHCP client, to allow them to use UDP sockets and be compliant
>> with the RFC2131, Section 4.1:
>>
>> 4.1 Constructing and sending DHCP messages
>> ...
>>     DHCP messages broadcast by a client prior to that client obtaining
>>     its IP address must have the source address field in the IP header
>>     set to 0.
>>
>> Based on a previous work from
>> Guillaume Gaudonville <guillaume.gaudonville@6wind•com>.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind•com>
>
> This requirement of the RFC is inconsistent with a host based
> addressing model, that which Linux employs, it assumes an interface
> based one.
There are some exceptions, for example when user tunes arp_ignore sysctl ;-)

>
> The wording here is also very ambiguous.
>
> This RFC fails to even remotely consider what the right behavior
> should be in a host based addressing environment at all, and anyone
> reading this RFC should just accept that.
I agree that this is ambiguous. And it's a 'must', not a 'MUST', which
is not the same for an RFC ;-)

>
> Furthermore, the fact that you're implementing _addressing_ policy in
> the UDP code makes this change even more unreasonable.
>
I made this choice because using 0.0.0.0, for TCP for example, seems a
non-sense.

But fair enough, let's drop this patch.


Thank you,
Nicolas

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-14 13:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-24 13:45 [patch net-next] ipv6: allow userspace to create address with IFLA_F_TEMPORARY flag Jiri Pirko
2013-10-24 13:48 ` [patch iproute2] allow to create temporary addresses Jiri Pirko
2013-10-24 14:02 ` [patch net-next] ipv6: allow userspace to create address with IFLA_F_TEMPORARY flag Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-10-24 16:59   ` Jiri Pirko
2013-10-25 10:05     ` Vladislav Yasevich
2013-10-25 20:12       ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-10-25 23:05 ` Vladislav Yasevich
2013-10-27 13:29   ` Jiri Pirko
2013-10-27 16:48     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-10-28 13:56       ` Vladislav Yasevich
2013-10-28 21:17       ` David Miller
2013-10-28 23:16         ` Dan Williams
2013-10-28 23:23           ` Dan Williams
2013-10-29  0:12             ` David Miller
2013-10-28 23:48           ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-10-29 14:31             ` Dan Williams
2013-10-29 14:38               ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-10-29 17:21                 ` Dan Williams
2013-10-29 16:58               ` Vlad Yasevich
2013-10-29 17:15                 ` Dan Williams
2013-10-29  0:08           ` David Miller
2013-10-29  0:13             ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-10-29  0:46               ` David Miller
2013-10-28 23:31         ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-10-29  0:43           ` David Miller
2013-10-29  9:37             ` David Laight
2013-10-29 12:40               ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-10-29 13:09                 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-10-29 13:11                   ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-10-29 19:58                 ` David Miller
2013-11-01 21:28                   ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-11-05 17:02                 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2013-11-05 17:12                   ` David Laight
2013-11-05 21:11                     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-11-06  9:23                       ` David Laight
2013-11-06 12:03                         ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-11-05 20:57                   ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-11-06  8:11                     ` Nicolas Dichtel
2013-11-09  0:54                     ` [RFC PATCH net-next 1/2] ipv4: fix wildcard search with inet_confirm_addr() Nicolas Dichtel
2013-11-09  0:54                       ` [RFC PATCH net-next 2/2] udp: add sk opt to allow sending pkt with src 0.0.0.0 Nicolas Dichtel
2013-11-09 14:46                         ` Julian Anastasov
2013-11-12  8:59                           ` Nicolas Dichtel
2013-11-11  5:18                         ` David Miller
2013-11-14 13:05                           ` Nicolas Dichtel [this message]
2013-11-14 19:57                             ` David Miller
2013-11-18  9:15                               ` Nicolas Dichtel
2013-11-14 14:31                           ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-11-14 20:00                             ` David Miller
2013-10-29 19:44               ` [patch net-next] ipv6: allow userspace to create address with IFLA_F_TEMPORARY flag David Miller

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