From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:30:58 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger Message-ID: <20100113083058.79d521c6@nehalam> In-Reply-To: <8cad0aa1001130229m18bff0b3mfd58c813c1b6a183@mail.gmail.com> References: <8cad0aa1001130229m18bff0b3mfd58c813c1b6a183@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Bridge] Re :Re: Re :Re: Bridging LACP (802.3ad) frames not working List-Id: Linux Ethernet Bridging List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Jean-Michel Hautbois Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:29:55 +0100 Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: > 2010/1/13 Stephen Hemminger : > > On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:04:48 -0500 > > Ross Vandegrift wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 09:40:30PM +0000, jhautbois@gmail.com wrote: > >> > This is exactly the problem. > >> > But, sounds like it is not possible... ? > >> > >> You could run a custom version of the bridge driver to enable bridging > >> of frames sent to the bridge-management MAC addresses. =C2=A0Some folks > >> have talked about doing similar things to enable bridging of STP. > >> > >> Doing that with STP makes a bit more sense to me (since there are > >> valid networks that could be constructed that way). =C2=A0But you'll be > >> breaking a pretty fundamental assumption of LACP.... > > > > Recent kernels will forward link local frames as long as STP is disable= d. > > Older kernels will not. > > > > The assumption is that if STP is enabled, then it will be managing > > control plane. >=20 > Well, I have a 2.6.31 kernel. And LACP is not forwarded, even when STP > is disabled. > I don't understand what you mean ? I meant they get processed locally, before that they were dropped. The best solution is to write an ebtables rule to forward them.