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From: "YOSHIFUJI Hideaki/吉藤英明" <hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux•com>
To: Ulf Samuelsson <ulf.samuelsson@ericsson•com>,
	yzhu1 <Yanjun.Zhu@windriver•com>,
	brian.haley@hp•com, davem@davemloft•net,
	alexandre.dietsch@windriver•com, clinton.slabbert@windriver•com,
	kuznet@ms2•inr.ac.ru, jmorris@namei•org, kaber@trash•net,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org
Cc: hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux•com,
	"YOSHIFUJI Hideaki (USAGI Project)" <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 0/1] neighbour: Support broadcast ARP in neighbor PROPE state
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:34:12 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <550954A4.2070900@miraclelinux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55093C76.3030208@ericsson.com>

Hi,

Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
>
> On 03/12/2015 09:42 AM, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> yzhu1 wrote:
>>> The state machine is in the attachment.
>>>
>>> Best Regards!
>>> Zhu Yanjun
>>> On 03/12/2015 02:58 PM, Zhu Yanjun wrote:
>>>> V2:
>>>>    set ARP_PROBE_BCAST default N.
>>>>
>>>> V1:
>>>>    Have a problem with an HP router at a certain location, which
>>>>    is configured to only answer to broadcast ARP requests.
>>>>    That cannot be changed.
>>>>
>>>>    The first ARP request the kernel sends out, is a broadcast request,
>>>>    which is fine, but after the reply, the kernel sends unicast requests,
>>>>    which will not get any replies.
>>>>
>>>>    The ARP entry will after some time enter STALE state,
>>>>    and if nothing is done it will time out, and be removed.
>>>>    This process takes to long, and I have been told that it is
>>>>    difficult to makes changes that will eventually remove it.
>>>>
>>>>    Have tried to change the state from STALE to INCOMPLETE, which failed,
>>>>    and then tried to change the state to PROBE which also failed.
>>>>
>>>>    The stack is only sending out unicasts, and never broadcast.
>>>>    Is there any way to get the stack to send out a broadcast ARP
>>>>    without having to wait for the entry to be removed?
>>
>> Neighbour subsystem will send multicast probes after unicast
>> probes in NUD_PROBE state if mcast_solicit is more than
>> ucast_solicit.  Try setting net.ipv4.neigh.*.ucast_solicit to
>> the value less than net.ipv4.neigh.*.mcast_solicit, please?
>> e.g.
>>
>> net.ipv4.neigh.eth0.mcast_solicit = 3
>> net.ipv4.neigh.eth0.ucast_solicit = 1
>>
>> --yoshfuji
>>
> I dont see how, and I would like to focus on code discussion.
>
> Below is simplified pseudo code of the timer handler
> after you have reached REACHABLE the first time.
>
>      "mcast_solicit" is not used at all.
>
> It is only used when in INCOMPLETE state as far as I can tell.

OK, I found I made this change in 2003:

 From d12fd76789e80ae337408834f45dae7cba23fc55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hideaki Yoshifuji <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6•org>
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 23:32:45 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] [NET] Send only unicast NSs in PROBE state.

---
  net/core/neighbour.c | 4 +++-
  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
index c640ad5..001fdb4 100644
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -608,7 +608,9 @@ next_elt:
  static __inline__ int neigh_max_probes(struct neighbour *n)
  {
  	struct neigh_parms *p = n->parms;
-	return p->ucast_probes + p->app_probes + p->mcast_probes;
+	return (n->nud_state & NUD_PROBE ?
+		p->ucast_probes :
+		p->ucast_probes + p->app_probes + p->mcast_probes);
  }


As I recall, I was hesitating adding new sysctl knob, but now I am
okay to have knob to enable mcast probes in PROBE state as well.
(By default, it should NOT send multicast probe (expecially for IPv6)
in PROBE state.)

How about these?
- introduce probe_mcast_probes knob, default to 0.
- Change neigh_max_probes() to reflect that.

Then, arp_colisit() and ndict_solicit() should send multicast probes
in PROBE state as well, if probe_mcast_probes is set to positive
value.

Will this work for you?

Regards,

--yoshfuji

>
>
> Best Regards,
> Ulf Samuelsson
>
>
>
>>
>>>>
>>>>    I think the recommended behaviour in IPv6 is to send out 3 unicasts
>>>>    and if all fails, to send out broadcasts.
>>>>
>>>> Zhu Yanjun (1):
>>>>    neighbour: Support broadcast ARP in neighbor PROPE state
>>>>
>>>>   include/net/neighbour.h        |  7 ++++++
>>>>   include/uapi/linux/neighbour.h |  6 +++++
>>>>   include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h    |  3 +++
>>>>   kernel/sysctl_binary.c         |  3 +++
>>>>   net/core/neighbour.c           | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>>>>   net/ipv4/Kconfig               | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>   net/ipv4/arp.c                 |  7 ++++--
>>>>   7 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>
>>
>

-- 
吉藤英明 <hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux•com>
ミラクル・リナックス株式会社 技術本部 サポート部

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-18 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-12  6:58 [PATCH V2 0/1] neighbour: Support broadcast ARP in neighbor PROPE state Zhu Yanjun
2015-03-12  6:58 ` [PATCH V2 1/1] " Zhu Yanjun
2015-03-12 10:05   ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki/吉藤英明
2015-03-12  7:10 ` [PATCH V2 0/1] " yzhu1
2015-03-12  8:42   ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2015-03-12  8:59     ` Ulf samuelsson
2015-03-12  9:28       ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki/吉藤英明
2015-03-12  9:45         ` Ulf samuelsson
2015-03-12 10:16           ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2015-03-18  8:51     ` Ulf Samuelsson
2015-03-18 10:34       ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki/吉藤英明 [this message]
2015-03-18 12:15         ` Ulf Samuelsson
2015-03-18 13:22           ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki/吉藤英明
2015-03-18 15:12             ` Ulf Samuelsson
2015-03-19  2:42             ` yzhu1
2015-03-19  2:14           ` yzhu1
2015-03-19  2:24       ` yzhu1
2015-03-12 19:22 ` David Miller
2015-03-16 12:39   ` Ulf Samuelsson
2015-03-19  5:52     ` yzhu1

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