netdev - Re: unintended ipv4 broadcast policy change

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Message-Id: <20110623.140821.674961342350404546.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:08:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: unintended ipv4 broadcast policy change

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:01:37 -0400

> Standard Debian stable (Squeeze) installation.
> $ dpkg -S /sbin/dhclient
> isc-dhcp-client: /sbin/dhclient

I bet what happens is that since it isn't reading from
the AF_PACKET socket the receive queue just fills up
and it's just in the kernel dropping packets in
packet_spkt_rcv().
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