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* [PATCH][RFC] bridge: mark packets sent to any local mac address as PACKET_HOST
@ 2014-04-22 17:50 Maxime Bizon
  2014-04-22 18:01 ` Sergei Shtylyov
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Maxime Bizon @ 2014-04-22 17:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stephen Hemminger; +Cc: bridge, netdev


The bridge code only set PACKET_HOST on packets sent to the bridge mac
address, packets sent to other local mac addresses are sent to upper
layer, but ignored because they are marked as PACKET_OTHERHOST.
---
 net/bridge/br_input.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_input.c b/net/bridge/br_input.c
index 7985dea..b942561 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_input.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_input.c
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ int br_handle_frame_finish(struct sk_buff *skb)
 			dst->is_local) {
 		skb2 = skb;
 		/* Do not forward the packet since it's local. */
+		skb2->pkt_type = PACKET_HOST;
 		skb = NULL;
 	}
 
-- 
1.7.9.5


-- 
Maxime

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* Re: [PATCH][RFC] bridge: mark packets sent to any local mac address as PACKET_HOST
  2014-04-22 17:50 [PATCH][RFC] bridge: mark packets sent to any local mac address as PACKET_HOST Maxime Bizon
@ 2014-04-22 18:01 ` Sergei Shtylyov
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Sergei Shtylyov @ 2014-04-22 18:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mbizon, Stephen Hemminger; +Cc: netdev, bridge

Hello.

On 04/22/2014 09:50 PM, Maxime Bizon wrote:

> The bridge code only set PACKET_HOST on packets sent to the bridge mac
> address, packets sent to other local mac addresses are sent to upper
> layer, but ignored because they are marked as PACKET_OTHERHOST.

    You forgot to sign off.

WBR, Sergei

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