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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: "Christian Benvenuti (benve)" <benve@cisco.com>
Cc: bridge@linux-foundation.org, Ed Swierk <eswierk@bigswitch.com>,
	Nick Carter <ncarter100@gmail.com>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	David Lamparter <equinox@diac24.net>
Subject: Re: [Bridge] [RFC] bridge: add netfilter hook for forwarding 802.1D group addresses
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:24:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110819152415.00e1c795@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <184D23435BECB444AB6B9D4630C8EC830258A300@XMB-RCD-303.cisco.com>

On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:18:04 -0500
"Christian Benvenuti (benve)" <benve@cisco.com> wrote:

> The patch description and the code are clearly saying that STP is
> an exception, but I am just worried about the users.
> Maybe a proper description in the iptables help is sufficient.
> 
> Users may otherwise try to use this new hook for STP too
> (for example to generate logs or produce statistics/counters
> or divert STP traffic to userspace, etc).

STP traffic already goes to userspace. And gets processed
by the LOCAL_IN chain. So I don't think it is needed.


> Out of curiosity, ... if this gets accepted, shouldn't you provide
> NF_BR_LINK_LOCAL_OUT too?
> Or maybe you should call it NF_BR_LINK_LOCAL_FWD instead of
> NF_BR_LINK_LOCAL_IN?

Thanks, that is a better name, I'll change it in next version.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-19 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2011-08-15 22:05       ` [Bridge] [RFC] bridge: allow passing link-local multicast Stephen Hemminger
2011-08-18 15:06         ` Nick Carter
2011-08-18 15:10           ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-08-18 15:52             ` Nick Carter
2011-08-18 16:39               ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-08-19  2:27                 ` David Lamparter
2011-08-19 20:58                   ` [Bridge] [RFC] bridge: add netfilter hook for forwarding 802.1D group addresses Stephen Hemminger
2011-08-19 22:18                     ` Christian Benvenuti (benve)
2011-08-19 22:24                       ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2011-08-20 15:31                     ` Bart De Schuymer
2011-08-22 13:59                     ` David Lamparter

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