netdev - Re: [IPV4] LVS: Allow to send ICMP unreachable responses when real-servers are removed

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Date:	Mon, 14 May 2007 03:35:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kaber@...sh.net
Cc:	horms@...ge.net.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org, jkrzyszt@....icnet.pl
Subject: Re: [IPV4] LVS: Allow to send ICMP unreachable responses when
 real-servers are removed

From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 12:21:34 +0200

> This allows any user to send spoofed packets when ip_nonlocal_bind
> is set, which is a quite big change in behaviour of this option.
> The TPROXY patches include a similar change, but use a flag in
> struct flowi that requires CAP_NET_ADMIN to be set, which seems like
> a better idea. Alternatively you could just use input routing for
> non-local source addresses like ip_route_me_harder does.

Good point.

> BTW, there doesn't even seem to be a spot where IPVS calls
> ip_route_output with the source address set. What exactly is this
> needed for?

I suppose he has a patch to make use of it, but was waiting
for this route.c change to go in first.
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