Bug 64053

Summary: Broadcast storming after upgrading to patch SA04:04
Product: Base System Reporter: Daniel Austin <daniel>
Component: kernAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 5.2.1-RELEASE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Daniel Austin 2004-03-10 14:50:13 UTC 
Since upgrading to 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1, our freebsd router has been broadcast storming our LAN.

Fix: 

As a temporary fix, i have firewalled the broadcast and network addresses
on the freebsd router.
How-To-Repeat: If i send packets (tcp/udp/icmp) to the network or broadcast addresses
of an interface on the router from a non-attached network (e.g. over the
internet), the freebsd router duplicates these packets (1 packet becomes
a few thousand packets).  The TTL appears to change through the packets.

e.g. telnet from home to .0 or .255 of a /24 configured on a remote server.
Comment 1 Tilman Keskinoz freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-08-24 16:49:04 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

Is this still an issue? 
-p2 included a better fix, so I guess this is fixed.
Comment 2 Tilman Keskinoz freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-10-03 15:55:00 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed


Feedback timeout (1 month)