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"ip_dynaddr" broken in 2.4.0-test10

DISCUSSION Steffen Moser 3 participants 4 messages Nov 6, 2000

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Hello,

I have configured, compiled and installed "linux-2.4.0-test10" on my SuSE Linux 6.3 machine. After doing some necessary updates the system works quite fine now. But there is one thing which makes still some
problems: "ip_dynaddr" seems not to work anymore.

I use an ISDN connection (dial on demand) to my ISP (that assigns me a dynamic IP address when dialling up), so I should make use of "ip_dynaddr" to prevent the first packet from being lost. Running "linux-2.2.17" (or any other "2.2.X") this worked without any problems:
as soon as the connection is established the source address of the first packet is shifted to the officially assigned address.

But this seems not to work with "linux-2.4.0-test10": I don't get response to a packet which was sent before the connection was established, i.e. if I try -for example- to establish an "ssh"-connection to a machine when I am "off-line", my machine starts to dial up, but the "ssh"-connection times out, so I have to interrupt "ssh" and start it again after the ISDN connection is established, because the first packet always gets lost.

The "ip_dynaddr" is activated:

steffen@pc01:~ > cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr 1
steffen@pc01:~ >

Does anybody have the same problem? Is it a bug of "2.4.0-test10" or is it the result of missing updates of userspace programmes?

Regards,
Steffen
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Hello,

thank you for your fast answer!

Quoted 3 lines · David S. Miller

Does this fix it?

echo "1" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_nonlocal_bind

I tried this - but no success. The problem persists...

Bye,
Steffen
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"Steffen" == Steffen Moser <[email protected]> writes:

Does this fix it?

echo "1" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_nonlocal_bind

Steffen> I tried this - but no success. The problem persists...

I just wrote a tool that does re-sending and address-rewriting
of the first packet from user space. If the bug is that ip_dynaddr fails to re-send the first packet, the tool should work around this and thus be a good diagnostic aid. (And BTW, it also works around other `first packet lost' problems that are not handled by ip_dynaddr like lost DNS lookup). See http://www.baty.hanse.de/ip_resend/ip_resend-0.3.tar.gz

Henner
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