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>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
index 10e15a1..44bf82e 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -1500,7 +1500,8 @@
if (cnf == net->ipv4.devconf_dflt)
devinet_copy_dflt_conf(net, i);
- if (i == IPV4_DEVCONF_ACCEPT_LOCAL - 1)
+ if (i == IPV4_DEVCONF_ACCEPT_LOCAL - 1 ||
+ i == IPV4_DEVCONF_ROUTE_LOCALNET - 1)
if ((new_value == 0) && (old_value != 0))
rt_cache_flush(net, 0);
}
@@ -1617,6 +1618,8 @@
"force_igmp_version"),
DEVINET_SYSCTL_FLUSHING_ENTRY(PROMOTE_SECONDARIES,
"promote_secondaries"),
+ DEVINET_SYSCTL_FLUSHING_ENTRY(ROUTE_LOCALNET,
+ "route_localnet"),
},
};