V2: Corrected comment and simplified mask to check for class D and E IP addresses When sniffing the network traffic, discard class D and E IP addresses when sniffing traffic. This was a reason why filters were not correctly rebuilt on VMs on the local 192.* network when libvirt was restarted and those VMs did not use a DHCP request to get its IP address. Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger<stefanb@us.ibm.com> --- src/nwfilter/nwfilter_learnipaddr.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: libvirt-acl/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_learnipaddr.c =================================================================== --- libvirt-acl.orig/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_learnipaddr.c +++ libvirt-acl/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_learnipaddr.c @@ -546,9 +546,11 @@ learnIPAddressThread(void *arg) struct iphdr *iphdr = (struct iphdr*)(packet + ethHdrSize); vmaddr = iphdr->saddr; - // skip eth. bcast and mcast addresses, - // and zero address in DHCP Requests - if ((ntohl(vmaddr)& 0xc0000000) || vmaddr == 0) { + // skip mcast addresses (224.0.0.0 - 239.255.255.255), + // class E (240.0.0.0 - 255.255.255.255, includes eth. + // bcast) and zero address in DHCP Requests + if ( (ntohl(vmaddr)& 0xe0000000) == 0xe0000000 || + vmaddr == 0) { vmaddr = 0; continue; }