Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee> wrote:
> RK> My firewall setup relies on proxyarp working.  However, with 2.6.14-rc3,
> RK> it appears to be completely broken.  The firewall is 212.18.232.186,
> 
> Same here with some kernel between 14-rc2 and 14-rc3 - no reposnse to
> ARP on a proxyarp gateway. Sorry, no exact revison and no more debugging
> yet since it'a a production gateway.

The breakage is caused by the change to use the CB area for flagging
whether a packet has been queued due to proxy_delay.  This area gets
cleared every time arp_rcv gets called.  Unfortunately packets delayed
due to proxy_delay also go through arp_rcv when they are reprocessed.

In fact, I can't think of a reason why delayed proxy packets should go
through netfilter again at all.  So the easiest solution is to bypass
that and go straight to arp_process.

This is essentially what would've happened before netfilter support
was added to ARP.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>