Okay, that one is just a little too strong. It won't allow
a FreeBSD token-ring station to arp-reply to an ethernet station
on the other side of a "broken" translational bridge. This one
will.
Larry Lile
l...@stdio.com
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Larry Lile wrote:
>
> The problem Mr. Pallfreeman was seeing are related to how I was
> building the arp-reply based on the sources arp_hrd type. I never
> expected to see a token-ring arp arrive over an ethernet interface.
> Therefore the arp code was trying to check for and collect the
> source route that the arp took on its way. I have modified the
> arp code to go looking for the source-route information only if
> the arp comes from a token-ring station and is received on a
> token-ring interface. The arp-reply packet generated is based
> on the type of interface the arp was received on. I think
> the bridge should have changed the arp_hrd type when it forwarded
> the packet, while it was changing everything else, but I think
> that falls into a religous debate. Thanks to Mr. Pallfreeman
> for helping me debug this and testing my patch.
>
> What this means is: you should be able to arp in both directions
> over a token-ring<->ethernet (translational|non-translational) bridge.
>
> The inherent "brokenness" of translational bridging is left as an
> exercise for the reader :)
>
> Here's the patch, if someone would be kind enough to commit it. It
> seems to have resolved Mr. Pallfreeman's issue and doesn't seem to
> break anything else.
>
> Larry Lile
> l...@stdio.com
>
*** if_ether.c.orig Mon Mar 8 13:22:41 1999
--- if_ether.c Wed Apr 14 14:43:41 1999
***************
*** 559,566 ****
(void)memcpy(LLADDR(sdl), ea->arp_sha, sizeof(ea->arp_sha));
sdl->sdl_alen = sizeof(ea->arp_sha);
sdl->sdl_rcf = NULL;
! /* Save source routing information for Token-ring interfaces,
if available */
! if (ea->arp_hrd == htons(ARPHRD_IEEE802)) {
th = (struct iso88025_header *)m->m_pkthdr.header;
if ((th->iso88025_shost[0] & 0x80) && (((ntohs(th->rcf)
& 0x1f00) >> 8) > 2)) {
sdl->sdl_rcf = ntohs(th->rcf) & 0x0080 ?
--- 559,568 ----
(void)memcpy(LLADDR(sdl), ea->arp_sha, sizeof(ea->arp_sha));
sdl->sdl_alen = sizeof(ea->arp_sha);
sdl->sdl_rcf = NULL;
! /* If we receive an arp from a token-ring station over a
token-ring nic
! * then try to save the source routing info.
! */
! if (ac->ac_if.if_type == IFT_ISO88025) {
th = (struct iso88025_header *)m->m_pkthdr.header;
if ((th->iso88025_shost[0] & 0x80) && (((ntohs(th->rcf)
& 0x1f00) >> 8) > 2)) {
sdl->sdl_rcf = ntohs(th->rcf) & 0x0080 ?
***************
*** 577,582 ****
--- 579,586 ----
}
th->rcf = sdl->sdl_rcf;
+ } else {
+ sdl->sdl_rcf = NULL;
}
if (rt->rt_expire)
rt->rt_expire = time_second + arpt_keep;
***************
*** 646,653 ****
(void)memcpy(ea->arp_spa, &itaddr, sizeof(ea->arp_spa));
ea->arp_op = htons(ARPOP_REPLY);
ea->arp_pro = htons(ETHERTYPE_IP); /* let's be sure! */
! switch (ntohs(ea->arp_hrd)) {
! case ARPHRD_IEEE802:
/* Re-arrange the source/dest address */
memcpy(th->iso88025_dhost, th->iso88025_shost,
sizeof(th->iso88025_dhost));
memcpy(th->iso88025_shost, ac->ac_enaddr,
sizeof(th->iso88025_shost));
--- 650,657 ----
(void)memcpy(ea->arp_spa, &itaddr, sizeof(ea->arp_spa));
ea->arp_op = htons(ARPOP_REPLY);
ea->arp_pro = htons(ETHERTYPE_IP); /* let's be sure! */
! switch (ac->ac_if.if_type) {
! case IFT_ISO88025:
/* Re-arrange the source/dest address */
memcpy(th->iso88025_dhost, th->iso88025_shost,
sizeof(th->iso88025_dhost));
memcpy(th->iso88025_shost, ac->ac_enaddr,
sizeof(th->iso88025_shost));
***************
*** 662,668 ****
sa.sa_data[(sizeof(th->iso88025_dhost) * 2)] = 0x10;
sa.sa_data[(sizeof(th->iso88025_dhost) * 2) + 1] = 0x40;
break;
! case ARPHRD_ETHER:
eh = (struct ether_header *)sa.sa_data;
(void)memcpy(eh->ether_dhost, ea->arp_tha,
sizeof(eh->ether_dhost));
eh->ether_type = htons(ETHERTYPE_ARP);
--- 666,672 ----
sa.sa_data[(sizeof(th->iso88025_dhost) * 2)] = 0x10;
sa.sa_data[(sizeof(th->iso88025_dhost) * 2) + 1] = 0x40;
break;
! case IFT_ETHER:
eh = (struct ether_header *)sa.sa_data;
(void)memcpy(eh->ether_dhost, ea->arp_tha,
sizeof(eh->ether_dhost));
eh->ether_type = htons(ETHERTYPE_ARP);
