[ipxe-devel] Broadcast UDP is rejected during pxebs

[Daniel Pieczko (dpieczko)]

On 11/12/15 10:17, Daniel Pieczko (dpieczko) wrote:
> The packet is rejected because it doesn't match any of the udp_conns in
> udp_demux() - this is because we have added the local IP address to the
> socket at the beginning of start_pxebs().
>
> My understanding is the we should be operating in promiscuous mode and
> we specifically set the BOOTP flag for BROADCAST since we have an IP
> address at this point, so I believe the reply from the boot server is
> correct.

Off the list I received a reply from Wissam Shoukair suggesting a change
in udp_demux() to ignore the padding in the udp_conns.  I believe Wissam
intends to submit this patch soon.

This made me think about the promiscuity of the network interface at the
level of UDP.  Is the correct behaviour for ipxe to deliver all UDP
packets with the specified destination port to the next layer,
regardless of destination IP address?  Packets that have a bad unicast
IP address should be dropped at the next level, so I think that sounds
sensible, but I'd appreciate any other opinions.


Daniel


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