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From: Xiaofei Wu <xiaofei_wu08@yahoo.com>
To: Mark Smith <lk-netdev@lk-netdev.nosense.org>
Cc: linux netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: about packets forwarding
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 06:14:21 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <128535.30433.qm@web111606.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090902201800.1dbb4988.lk-netdev@lk-netdev.nosense.org>





> Hello,
> 
> I have something to ask here.
> 
> The topology of the network is as follows.
> There are six Nodes (A, B, C, D, M, N).
> 
>   M
>   |
>   A
>  / \
> B   D
>  \ /
>   C
>   |
>   N
> 
> M-A, C-N are wired links.
> A-B, B-C, A-D, D-C are wireless links.
> 
> Node M wnats to communicate with node N. Because the wireless links
> are not very reliable, I want to forward the packets through A-B-C and
> A-D-C simultaneously (When Node A receives packets(from Node M) from
> its wired interface eth0, It will forward the same packets to its
> wireless interfaces wlan0 and wlan1 simultaneously) . How to implement
> this?
> 

------
Stephen Hemminger  <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> said,

* The traffic control command 'tc filter    mirred'  probably does this, but not sure.
* Other way to do the same thing would be iptables, not sure if there is an iptables target to mirror.
------

Can you give more information about how to implement this?


      


      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-02 13:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2009-09-02  9:03   ` about packets forwarding wu xiaofei
2009-09-02 10:48     ` Mark Smith
2009-09-02 12:31       ` wu xiaofei
2009-09-02 13:14       ` Xiaofei Wu [this message]

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