From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>, Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: bonding-devel@lists.sf.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Bonding ALB sends bogus packets
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:06:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090730130656.680e9152@nehalam> (raw)
The bonding ALB mode builds packets with type, ETH_P_LOOP.
Well ETH_P_LOOP is defined as 0x0060 which looks completely bogus.
All Ethernet types less than 1536 are interpreted as 802.2 frames.
The result is that the resulting packet looks like a bogus 802.2
frame to the other host (or switch). I have no idea what the
initial design was or what the purpose of this code is, but it
should either send a real packet or nothing at all.
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next reply other threads:[~2009-07-30 20:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-30 20:06 Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2009-07-30 20:28 ` Bonding ALB sends bogus packets Jay Vosburgh
2009-07-30 20:35 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-07-30 23:36 ` Mark Smith
2009-07-30 23:48 ` Rick Jones
2009-07-31 1:30 ` Mark Smith
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