From 4e6f3a0c71e4107efb5c9446508876f942b30ec7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@google.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 14:02:52 -0700
Subject: Remove restrictions on the sending address
It is quite legal to send from the ANY address (it is required for
DHCP). I can't figure out why the broadcast address was included here,
so removing that as well.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 275541954
---
pkg/tcpip/stack/nic.go | 5 -----
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
(limited to 'pkg/tcpip/stack')
diff --git a/pkg/tcpip/stack/nic.go b/pkg/tcpip/stack/nic.go
index 43f4ad91e..12c82f8b8 100644
--- a/pkg/tcpip/stack/nic.go
+++ b/pkg/tcpip/stack/nic.go
@@ -173,11 +173,6 @@ func (n *NIC) primaryEndpoint(protocol tcpip.NetworkProtocolNumber) *referencedN
for e := list.Front(); e != nil; e = e.Next() {
r := e.(*referencedNetworkEndpoint)
- // TODO(crawshaw): allow broadcast address when SO_BROADCAST is set.
- switch r.ep.ID().LocalAddress {
- case header.IPv4Broadcast, header.IPv4Any:
- continue
- }
if r.isValidForOutgoing() && r.tryIncRef() {
return r
}
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