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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: Wrong MAC with vlans in LOG
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:31:48 +0200
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Krzysztof Oledzki wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Just discovered that -j LOG produces wrong MAC=(...) with non
> hardware-accelerated vlans:
> 
> IN=vlan6 OUT= MAC=00:0e:0c:a1:ba:ce:00:01:42:2f:3a:60:08:00
> SRC=38.102.233.175 DST=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX LEN=225 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=46
> ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=4679 DPT=23020 LEN=205
> 
> Please notice that mac address is two bytes longer than it should be and
> the additional 08:00 is an ethertype value: 0x0800 - IPv4.
> 
> Any ideas?


That also happends for normal ethernet packets. We decided that its
not worth potentially breaking parsers to fix this, ipt_LOG is not
very well suited for anything but debugging anyway.