Bug 100432 - New kernel tries to send huge number of message on LAN.
Summary: New kernel tries to send huge number of message on LAN.
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Whiteboard:
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-07-22 12:12 UTC by Jean-David Beyer
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:55 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2004-09-30 15:41:20 UTC
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Description Jean-David Beyer 2003-07-22 12:12:36 UTC
Description of problem:

I just allowed up2date to update my kernel from 2.4.20-18.7smp to
2.4.20-19.7smp. When I rebooted to use the new kernel, my /var/log/messages got
filled with rejections (by iptables) of messages to be sent to the other machine
on the LAN. They come in batches of four, every 30 seconds.

My iptables settings have not been changed since it was working normally.
Here is part of iptables configuration:

$IPT -A OUTPUT            -o lo                        -j ACCEPT
$IPT -A OUTPUT                                         -j BADIP
$IPT -A OUTPUT                                         -j SHUN
$IPT -A OUTPUT -p ! icmp  -o $EXTDEV  -s ! $EXTERNALIP -j LDROP
$IPT -A OUTPUT -p ! icmp  -o $INTDEV  -s ! $INTERNALIP -j LDROP
$IPT -A OUTPUT -p ! icmp                               -j OUT
$IPT -A OUTPUT -p   icmp                               -j OUT_ICMP
$IPT -A OUTPUT                                         -j LDROP

$IPT -N OUT
$IPT -A OUT -p tcp                                     -j FLAGS
$IPT -A OUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED       -j ACCEPT
[rules to accept output of only those I permit]
[LDROP logs and drops stuff it sees]

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel version 2.4.20-19.7smp

How reproducible:

Always. Never stops.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot system
2. Look for IPT messages in /var/log/messages
3.
    
Actual results:
Here is part of the /var/log/messages as the machine was booting up. These
messages continue every 30 seconds forever.

Jul 21 19:05:09 valinux kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,7),
internal journal
Jul 21 19:05:09 valinux kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Jul 21 19:05:09 valinux kernel: st: Version 20030406, bufsize 32768, max init.
bufs 4, s/g segs 16
Jul 21 19:05:09 valinux kernel: Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id
11, lun 0
Jul 21 19:05:09 valinux kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Jul 21 19:05:09 valinux kernel: ip_conntrack version 2.1 (4096 buckets, 32768
max) - 292 bytes per conntrack
Jul 21 19:05:09 valinux kernel: eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker
http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html
Jul 21 19:05:09 valinux kernel: eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17
Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw.com.sg> and others
Jul 21 19:05:09 valinux kernel: eth0: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100],
00:90:27:43:12:75, IRQ 17.
Jul 21 19:05:09 valinux kernel:   Board assembly 721383-006, Physical connectors
present: RJ45
Jul 21 19:05:09 valinux kernel:   Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
Jul 21 19:05:09 valinux kernel:   General self-test: passed.
Jul 21 19:05:09 valinux kernel:   Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
Jul 21 19:05:09 valinux kernel:   Internal registers self-test: passed.
Jul 21 19:05:09 valinux kernel:   ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).
Jul 21 19:05:09 valinux kernel: IPT Drop:  IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.1.250
DST=192.168.1.201 LEN=116 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=637
DPT=32771 LEN=96 
Jul 21 19:05:09 valinux kernel: IPT Drop:  IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.1.250
DST=192.168.1.201 LEN=116 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=639
DPT=32771 LEN=96 
Jul 21 19:05:09 valinux kernel: IPT Drop:  IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.1.250
DST=192.168.1.201 LEN=120 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=640
DPT=32771 LEN=100 
Jul 21 19:05:09 valinux kernel: IPT Drop:  IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.1.250
DST=192.168.1.201 LEN=116 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=641
DPT=32771 LEN=96 
Jul 21 19:05:09 valinux kernel: IPT Drop:  IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.1.250
DST=192.168.1.201 LEN=120 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=642
DPT=32771 LEN=100

Expected results:
Same as above, but WITHOUT the IPT Drop messages.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bugzilla owner 2004-09-30 15:41:20 UTC
Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of
the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem
persists.

The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, 
and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in
the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/



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