From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: prevent bridging wrong device Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:08:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20091105.210813.230480395.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20091029152408.6c6cc29f@nehalam> <20091102.000756.222203879.davem@davemloft.net> <20091104094713.1983a0b6@nehalam> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: nneul@mst.edu, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: shemminger@vyatta.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:52488 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750883AbZKFFHr (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:07:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20091104094713.1983a0b6@nehalam> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 09:47:13 -0800 > The bridge code assumes ethernet addressing, so be more strict in > the what is allowed. This showed up when GRE had a bug and was not > using correct address format. > > Add some more comments for increased clarity. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Applied to net-2.6, thanks.