[BUG] 2.6.* pktgen doesn't set ethnet header properly

[Junfeng Yang]

Hi,

I tried to use pktgen module from 2.6.* kernels and found out that I
couldn't receive any packets generated by pktgen.  I did not even see a
"packet dropped by kernel" message.  It turned out that function
setup_inject in net/core/pktgen.c doesn't setup the ethernet header field
correctly.  Below is a patch that fixes the problem.

--- kernel-source-2.6.8-orig/net/core/pktgen.c	2004-08-13 22:37:26.000000000 -0700
+++ kernel-source-2.6.8/net/core/pktgen.c	2005-01-19 17:54:46.000000000 -0800
@@ -259,6 +259,9 @@

 	/* Set up Dest MAC */
 	memcpy(&(info->hh[0]), info->dst_mac, 6);
+
+	/* Set up protocol */
+	((struct ethhdr *)(info->hh))->h_proto = htons(ETH_P_IP);

 	info->saddr_min = 0;
 	info->saddr_max = 0;

-Junfeng

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