Possibility of disabling raw socket use in Kea ?

Chaigneau, Nicolas nicolas.chaigneau at capgemini.com
Mon Sep 22 11:58:52 UTC 2014


Thanks.


I don't need it right away. Knowing that it is planned is good enough :)


Regards,
Nicolas.


 
> 
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Tomek Mrugalski [mailto:tomasz at isc.org] 
> Envoyé : lundi 22 septembre 2014 12:39
> À : Marcin Siodelski; Chaigneau, Nicolas; kea-dev at lists.isc.org
> Objet : Re: Possibility of disabling raw socket use in Kea ?
> 
> On 22/09/14 12:13, Marcin Siodelski wrote:
> > The code in Kea is prepared to switch between the use of raw sockets 
> > and regular datagram sockets. But, currently the selection is 
> > hardcoded and there is no configuration parameter to control this 
> > selection by the administrator. We're now going through some 
> > refactoring of the configuration code, so once this is done we can easily implement the switch.
> For the time being, you can do an experiment. It requires a minor change to the source code.
> 
> The specific socket handling objects are called PktFilterLPF (raw
> sockets) PktFilterInet(udp sockets). They are initialized in IfaceMgr::setMatchingPacketFilter in iface_mgr_linux.cc in src/lib/dhcp directory. That is called from Dhcpv4Srv constructor, which is in turn controlled by direct_response_desired flag. Its default value is set to true. If you edit it (line 91 in src/lib/dhcp/dhcp4_srv.h) to false and recompile, it is possible that the code will be able to successfully use UDP sockets.
> 
> Disclaimer: It's a quick hack. I haven't done any experiments with this, so it may break down. We can't apply it, as most people are interested in direct traffic, so a proper switch (either compile time or run time) is needed. That's something that we can't do immediately.
> 
> Tomek
> 
>
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