Network and protocol (non-driver) issues

AF_UNIX sockets
32844 unix(4) unix domain sockets documentation is incomplete (and see 38993)
39108 unix(4) Proposal for unix(4) LOCAL_PROC/SCM_PROC
Network stack
4360 net specific IP address UDP ports don't get broadcasts
4785 net directed bcasts sysctl bikeshedding
5992 net sysloging of "arp info overwritten" needs a throttle
6880 net/doc netintro(4) is incomplete
7285 net Ethernet drivers return ENOBUFS for I/F queue full error
7302 net cannot set multicast interface addr. of p2p interface
7586 net denial of service from mbuf exhaustion.
9137 net udp and spec issues
9444 net netbsd doesn't send gratuitious arps when an interface comes up
9548 net disallow interfaces with all 1's mac address
9818 net Router Alert RFC2113 has not been implemented.
9929 net pcap_lookupdev picks up interfaces that are not attached to BPF
10286 net list of network protocols not CMSG_*() correctly
10314 netatalk netatalk forces inclusion of if_arp.c
10319 net NFS_BOOTDHCP fails if DHCP relay honors IP TTL
11288 net NetBSD's IP stack leaks information in the ip_id
12448 net MSG_OOB state not cleared after reception
12608 net Need to F_SETOWN a socket before O_ASYNC works
13385 net Network stack assumes aligned payload from devices
13905 net Our ESP "NULL" cipher doesn't interoperate with the one in Win2K even in configurations where DES and 3DES do.
17367 net Activating 'tcp.cwm=1' can dramatically decrease network performance
17421 net local TCP connection hang
17616 net accept on a tcp socket loses options
18102 net Network i/f does not receive VLAN-tagged packet w/ VLAN id 0.
20426 net accesses to ifindex2ifnet[] has to be protected
20461 net Incorrect handling of MSS with RFC 1323 timestamp option
21633 net changing IP address on interface does not flush routing table
22522 net connect(2) may fail with EINVAL
23221 net Multicast packets sent to inappropriate sockets (patch)
25096 net kernels with options DIAGNOSTIC can't use rarp to boot with some network drivers
26939 net some network drivers don't generate an RTM_IFINFO route(4) message when link-detect changes
28362 net need proper error recovery path for network drivers getting EAGAIN for DMA maps
28976 net pool ipqepl: putting with none out, panic: pool_put, in tcp_reass() (netbsd-1-6)
29126 net tcpdump leads to packet loss
29199 net msghdr parsing incorrect in kernel for v6 options
29282 net TCP connections should fail on soft error (ICMP)
30057 net FAST_IPSEC, large MTU, and strict alignment don't get along
31827 net ieee802.11: station won't associate with access-point
34686 net IPv6 neighbour discovery going wrong
34748 net our tcp stack can enter fast recovery due to DSACKs
35168 net probable double free panic in net80211
35196 net sockets should die if addresses vanish
35224 net daemons freeze in mclpl condition after lot of net traffic from netbsd-2 through netbsd-3
35448 net memory management fault trap during heavy network I/O
36097 net http fetch stall in networking code
37429 net More than one network restart with ifconfig.if and INET6 doesn't act right.
37548 net WPA link go down when opening connection to some hosts
38245 net system lock up with pf.o module on amd64 (might be old amd64 lkm issues)
38485 net possible kernel-level optimization for bind
38631 net panic: free: addr %p not within kmem_map
38905 net Soekris net4501 running NetBSD 4.0_STABLE crashes
38992 net kernel requires incorrect alignment for cmsghdr cmsg_len field
39018 net ipsec code doesn't handle specific icmp codes (semi-stuck really - needs testing before pullups)
39038 net missing backward compaatibility in pf(4)
39084 net carp preempt does not failover other interfaces when one fails.
39417 net Crash with hostapd and EAP
39429 net improve IEEE 802.11 documentation
39520 net IPNAT fails to consistently handle FTP sessions
39572 net ARP resolution fails when MSG_DONTROUTE flag is set
39794 net panic (in4_cksum: bad mbuf chain) when using ftp
39854 net tcp_new_iss1 is used for both ipv4 and ipv6
39880 net ioctl with SIOCGIFFLAGS fails on -current (in GNUstep gdomap)
39919 net no access to ipip_allow kernel variable via sysctl
40174 net ndp: deleting non-exsistent entry may delete cloning route
40388 net IPv6 incompatibility with pre-5.99.6 binary
40661 net kernel: page fault trap by IPV6_PKTINFO
41005 net kernel failed to select correct outgoing address for Multicast packets
41075 net options IPSEC+IPSEC_ESP broken
41088 net xen3 domu kernel panic (probably related to ipsec)
41169 net RC3 page faults every few hours
41177 net sppp only ever sends one PAP retry
41286 net netbsd5-rc4 crash caused by pim6sd
43840 net panic: kassert "so->so_head == NULL" failed: file "/usr/src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c", line 703
44423 net ALTQ uses own option for IPSEC - should use IPSEC and/or FAST_IPSEC
44508 net (dM) ICMP_UNREACH_NEEDFRAG uses wrong mtu
44536 net struct syn_cache is too big
45251 net Kernel panic on nfs server
46237 npf starting npf causes a page fault
ipf
21209 ipf ipfilter should see ipsec packets after decryption, not before
25810 ipf ipf4 ftp proxy has problems with long 221- lines
26773 ipf ipf assumes mbufs are always writable
27084 ipf ipsec_proxy functionality was broken by other IP changes
27164 ipf ipfilter 'keep state' blocking legal connections
29268 ipf ipfilter should be allowed to specify additional flags.
29531 ipf Active FTP support with NAT causes panic
35525 ipf panics with ipnat and isakmp proxy
38078 ipf IPFilter lacks documentation almost completely
38390 ipf "keep state" rules block matching packets that belong to an existing state
38457 ipf ipf doesn't handle IPv6 fragments
39274 ipf ipfilter loses state of FTP mget transfer sessions
40382 ipf ipfilter NAT misidentifies packets as FTP
40443 ipf panic in ftp proxy in ipfilter
pf
35247 pf pf drops packets on connections with high window scaling
43541 pf Unaligned access in pf_normalize_tcpopt()

Last updated Tue Apr 24 07:12:18 UTC 2012