From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: Casper Gripenberg <casper.gripenberg@kotiportti.fi>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug in bridge or netfilter code (REJECT + incorrect MAC)?
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:47:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <481002E4.9020902@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0804021312280.6604@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 2008-04-02 13:06, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>>>
>>> The router is my ISP's internet router, which I do not
>>> control. But I doubt the router is doing anything wrong
>>> though. The weirdness is more on the Linux side..
>>
>> Sure, for full transparency the packets should ideally use
>> the original source MAC address. I'll see if I can come
>> up with a patch for this.
>
> The problem is an interesting one. REJECT itself does not fill
> in the MAC address, and probably should not try (there is more
> than just Ethernet). Yet the routing code is so deeply buried
> that drawing a seam through the entire call chain seems intrusive.
> </random thoughts>
Well, I didn't find a good way to fix this. Casper,
please open a bug report at bugzilla.netfilter.org
so this doesn't get lost. Thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-24 3:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-01 17:34 Bug in bridge or netfilter code (REJECT + incorrect MAC)? Casper Gripenberg
2008-04-02 10:43 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-02 10:56 ` Casper Gripenberg
2008-04-02 11:06 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-02 11:15 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-02 11:18 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-24 3:47 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
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