From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: johannes@sipsolutions.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, andy@warmcat.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] allow device to stop packet mirror behaviour
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:06:07 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070807.180607.116354128.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1186475155.4067.17.camel@johannes.berg>
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:25:55 +0200
> The only way to solve this problem therefore seems to be to suppress the
> mirroring out of the packet by dev_queue_xmit_nit(). The patch below
> does that by way of adding a new netdev flag.
Multicast packets also get looped back in a similar manner in the ipv4
code. These will also be seen twice due to this issue.
There are probably many other examples as well, dev_queue_xmit_nit()
is just the tip of the iceberg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-08 1:06 UTC|newest]
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2007-08-07 8:25 [RFC] allow device to stop packet mirror behaviour Johannes Berg
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2007-08-07 8:27 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-08 1:06 ` David Miller [this message]
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2007-08-08 9:14 ` Johannes Berg
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2007-08-08 10:17 ` David Miller
[not found] ` <20070808.031755.91441405.davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org>
2007-08-08 10:32 ` Johannes Berg
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