In certain 802.11 wireless deployments, there will be ARP proxies
that use knowledge of the network to correctly answer requests.
To prevent gratuitous ARP frames on the shared medium from being
a problem, on such deployments wireless needs to drop them.
Enable this by providing an option called "drop_gratuitous_arp".
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
(cherry picked from commit 4078228159c9f54cca7347a8bdace29f2abdef65)
Change-Id: I8772dbd7471085878f8b4161eb2a056d79b8b232
In order to solve a problem with 802.11, the so-called hole-196 attack,
add an option (sysctl) called "drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast" which, if
enabled, causes the stack to drop IPv4 unicast packets encapsulated in
link-layer multi- or broadcast frames. Such frames can (as an attack)
be created by any member of the same wireless network and transmitted
as valid encrypted frames since the symmetric key for broadcast frames
is shared between all stations.
Additionally, enabling this option provides compliance with a SHOULD
clause of RFC 1122.
Change-Id: I8de9fa5bdbea0556802f2ee553d0e73c1349213e
Reviewed-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
IP sends device configuration (see inet_fill_link_af) as an array
in the netlink information, but the indices in that array are not
exposed to userspace through any current santized header file.
It was available back in 2.6.32 (in /usr/include/linux/sysctl.h)
but was broken by:
commit 02291680ff
Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Date: Sun Feb 14 03:25:51 2010 +0000
net ipv4: Decouple ipv4 interface parameters from binary sysctl numbers
Eric was solving the sysctl problem but then the indices were re-exposed
by a later addition of devconf support for IPV4
commit 9f0f7272ac
Author: Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>
Date: Tue Nov 16 04:32:48 2010 +0000
ipv4: AF_INET link address family
Putting them in /usr/include/linux/ip.h seemed the logical match
for the DEVCONF_ definitions for IPV6 in /usr/include/linux/ip6.h
Change-Id: I082d6801e5677507ed2f2a25562fc4195f59c4e4
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Johannes Berg
stephen hemminger
David Howells