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From: Daniel Austin <daniel@kewlio.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Broadcast storming after upgrading to patch SA04:04
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>Number:         64053
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Broadcast storming after upgrading to patch SA04:04
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Mar 10 06:50:13 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:    Sun Oct 03 14:55:12 GMT 2004
>Last-Modified:  Sun Oct 03 14:55:12 GMT 2004
>Originator:     Daniel Austin
>Release:        5.2.1-RELEASE-p1
>Organization:
Kewlio.net Limited
>Environment:
FreeBSD border3.ldn.kewlio.net 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 #1: Fri Mar  5 22:32:45 GMT 2004     dan@border3.ldn.kewlio.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/kewlio  i386
>Description:
Since upgrading to 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1, our freebsd router has been broadcast storming our LAN.
>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.

>Fix:
As a temporary fix, i have firewalled the broadcast and network addresses
on the freebsd router.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: arved 
State-Changed-When: Tue Aug 24 15:49:04 GMT 2004 
State-Changed-Why:  
Is this still an issue? 
-p2 included a better fix, so I guess this is fixed. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=64053 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: arved 
State-Changed-When: Sun Oct 3 14:55:00 GMT 2004 
State-Changed-Why:  

Feedback timeout (1 month) 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=64053 
>Unformatted:
