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Bug 576429

Summary: cannot set arhln using arptables mangle options
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Hushan Jia <hjia>
Component: arptables_jfAssignee: Jiri Skala <jskala>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Aleš Mareček <amarecek>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 5.4CC: aglotov, amarecek, ovasik
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: 807315 906355 1030508 (view as bug list) Environment:
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Description Hushan Jia 2010-03-24 01:29:08 UTC 
Description of problem:

Hardware address length, i.e. --arhln parameter cannot be set. it always get a 
arptables v0.0.8: no hln defined
error message.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
[root@localhost ~]# arptables -V
arptables v0.0.8


How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
[root@localhost ~]# arptables -A OUT --arhln=06 --target-hw EA:5F:72:69:25:94 -j mangle --mangle-hw-s 52:54:00:12:34:57
arptables v0.0.8: no hln defined
Try `arptables -h' or 'arptables --help' for more information.

[root@localhost ~]# arptables -A OUT --arhln=06/FF --target-hw EA:5F:72:69:25:94 -j mangle --mangle-hw-s 52:54:00:12:34:57
arptables v0.0.8: no hln defined
Try `arptables -h' or 'arptables --help' for more information.


Actual results:


Expected results:
arptables command should succeed.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jiri Skala 2010-03-24 09:27:04 UTC 
Do replace --arhln=06 with --arhln 06 and it should work. Please read man page carefully, try more cases.
Comment 2 Hushan Jia 2010-03-24 23:56:46 UTC 
Sorry, I tried that, just not mentioned in first comment:


[root@localhost ~]# arptables -A OUT --arhln 06 --target-hw EA:5F:72:69:25:94 -j mangle --mangle-hw-s 52:54:00:12:34:57
arptables v0.0.8: no hln defined
Try `arptables -h' or 'arptables --help' for more information.


it does not work.
Comment 3 Jiri Skala 2010-03-25 10:14:18 UTC 
This is an issues using mangle-hw opitns.
Comment 7 Jiri Skala 2011-08-25 11:51:46 UTC 
Created attachment 519821 [details]
The patch fixes this issue
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2011-11-28 13:57:49 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1481.html