netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] arp: Ignore packets with an all zero sender mac address

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Date:   Fri, 03 Nov 2017 21:19:49 +0900 (KST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     echaudro@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] arp: Ignore packets with an all zero sender
 mac address

From: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@...hat.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 11:39:04 +0100

> Looking for any mentioning of an all-zero MAC address being invalid,
> the only reference I could find was in the original first Xerox Wire
> Specification. The IEEE specifications do not mention this at all, and
> according to it, the all-zero address is a valid MA-L address assigned
> to Xerox.
> 
> Looking at the packet more, it might be an attempt to do an unARP (RFC
> 1868) but forgot to implement to set the Hardware Address Length to
> zero.
> 
> I'm sure adding an arptables entry can be used to solve this instead,
> in case the offending device cannot be fixed.
> 
> Please ignore this patch...

Ok, thanks for looking more deeply into this.