From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jamal Subject: Re: [LARTC] ifb and ppp Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:19:48 -0400 Message-ID: <1190294388.4734.6.camel@localhost> References: <200709191417.43768.mail@frithjof-hammer.de> <46F11E76.8030202@trash.net> <200709192342.03646.mail@frithjof-hammer.de> <46F25F9A.7010007@trash.net> Reply-To: hadi@cyberus.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Frithjof Hammer , lartc@mailman.ds9a.nl, Linux Netdev List To: Patrick McHardy Return-path: Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.229]:59351 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753907AbXITNTy (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:19:54 -0400 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 36so198443wra for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:19:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <46F25F9A.7010007@trash.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2007-20-09 at 13:55 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > Please keep netdev and myself CCed. and me too (I am way behind on netdev) > Frithjof Hammer wrote: > > Any further help/ideas? Sorry, I didnt follow the thread - what is the goal to be achieved with the setup? > I misread the code, the device it looks at in tcf_mirred_init is > the target device (ifb). So what it does is check whether the > target device wants a link layer header and if it does restores > the one from the source device. So currently it seems impossible > to get rid of the PPP(oE) header. It is tricky to redirect from devices that have disparity in their view of link layer headers except for those that we know dont expect anything. > Jamal, is that how its supposed to work? Right - some netdevices on receipt will expect the link layer header. cheers, jamal