Re: Some ICMP-Reply messages don't arrive in User Space in recent Kernels

2015-10-13 Thread Jörg Pommnitz
Hannes, thanks for your reply. It was indeed rp_filter (found it myself). What changed were the default settings in Ubuntu (07.04 to 14.04). Regards Joerg 2015-10-13 15:18 GMT+02:00 Hannes Frederic Sowa : > On Tue, Oct 13, 2015, at 08:47, Jörg Pommnitz wrote: >> Hello all, >>

Some ICMP-Reply messages don't arrive in User Space in recent Kernels

2015-10-12 Thread Jörg Pommnitz
Hello all, I'm moving an application from 2.6.23 (yes, it's ancient; that's why we are moving) to 3.18LTS. The application monitors multiple network links to the same target with ping packets. The different links are selected either by their next hop router (Ethernet) or the network interface (Poin

Blackhole route not enough for proxy-arp

2015-07-17 Thread Jörg Pommnitz
Hello all, it seems that a blackhole route is not enough to enable proxy arp for the routing target. I tried ip route add blackhole 192.168.66.3/32 and ip route add 192.168.66.3/32 dev lo arping failed with the blackhole route but got responses with the route through the loopback interface. Is thi