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authorThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>2012-06-12 00:44:01 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-06-12 15:25:46 -0700
commitd0daebc3d622f95db181601cb0c4a0781f74f758 (patch)
treecbce3159c160d49675dba0d720d186be7f0d79d3 /Documentation/networking
parent0440507bbc44149e63bbfb9df730ba3820371904 (diff)
ipv4: Add interface option to enable routing of 127.0.0.0/8
Routing of 127/8 is tradtionally forbidden, we consider packets from that address block martian when routing and do not process corresponding ARP requests. This is a sane default but renders a huge address space practically unuseable. The RFC states that no address within the 127/8 block should ever appear on any network anywhere but it does not forbid the use of such addresses outside of the loopback device in particular. For example to address a pool of virtual guests behind a load balancer. This patch adds a new interface option 'route_localnet' enabling routing of the 127/8 address block and processing of ARP requests on a specific interface. Note that for the feature to work, the default local route covering 127/8 dev lo needs to be removed. Example: $ sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.eth0.route_localnet=1 $ ip route del 127.0.0.0/8 dev lo table local $ ip addr add 127.1.0.1/16 dev eth0 $ ip route flush cache V2: Fix invalid check to auto flush cache (thanks davem) Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt5
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 6f896b94abd..99d0e0504d6 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -862,6 +862,11 @@ accept_local - BOOLEAN
local interfaces over the wire and have them accepted properly.
default FALSE
+route_localnet - BOOLEAN
+ Do not consider loopback addresses as martian source or destination
+ while routing. This enables the use of 127/8 for local routing purposes.
+ default FALSE
+
rp_filter - INTEGER
0 - No source validation.
1 - Strict mode as defined in RFC3704 Strict Reverse Path