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    Add iptables rule to fixup DHCP response checksum. · fd5b15ff
    Laine Stump 提交于
    This patch attempts to take advantage of a newly added netfilter
    module to correct for a problem with some guest DHCP client
    implementations when used in conjunction with a DHCP server run on the
    host systems with packet checksum offloading enabled.
    
    The problem is that, when the guest uses a RAW socket to read the DHCP
    response packets, the checksum hasn't yet been fixed by the IP stack,
    so it is incorrect.
    
    The fix implemented here is to add a rule to the POSTROUTING chain of
    the mangle table in iptables that fixes up the checksum for packets on
    the virtual network's bridge that are destined for the bootpc port (ie
    "dhcpc", ie port 68) port on the guest.
    
    Only very new versions of iptables will have this support (it will be
    in the next upstream release), so a failure to add this rule only
    results in a warning message. The iptables patch is here:
    
      http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/58525/
    
    A corresponding kernel module patch is also required (the backend of
    the iptables patch) and that will be in the next release of the
    kernel.
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bridge_driver.c 55.7 KB