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From: Vlad Drukker <vlad@storewiz.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: bridge@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] [PATCH] fix 802.3ad multicast
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 17:42:54 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1144593774.23360.16.camel@quant> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060407165928.022d4ad8@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net>

On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 16:59 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:15:06 +0300
> Vlad Drukker <vlad@storewiz.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Stephen,
> > 
> > there was a bug in bridging bonds.
> > multicast packets needed for 802.3ad netif_carrier_ok() were dropped.
> > attached patch works for me.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Vlad.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Making a bonding specific hack like this seems wrong. The
> port could also be disabled during shutdown (for RCU removal),
> and in that case we need to drop the packet.
> 
> There must be a better solution.
> 

you probably right, 
skb_bond() looks like a proper place for this, because
netif_receive_skb() needs to call ETH_P_SLOW hadler instead of
hadle_bridge hook.

the fix is moving to linux-net . 



      reply	other threads:[~2006-04-09 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-06 16:15 [Bridge] [PATCH] fix 802.3ad multicast Vlad Drukker
2006-04-07 23:59 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-04-09 14:42   ` Vlad Drukker [this message]

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