From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Lamparter <equinox@diac24.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Nick Carter <ncarter100@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: revisit IEEE 802 local multicast groups
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 09:26:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110701092612.07b045bf@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1309518770-8547-1-git-send-email-equinox@diac24.net>
On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 13:12:50 +0200
David Lamparter <equinox@diac24.net> wrote:
> this first and foremost fixes handling of bonding frames, which were
> incorrectly forwarded until now. they need to never cross a bridge.
>
> it also introduces a new switch to control handling of the other
> not-that-special groups; if you want them forwarded despite having
> STP running, there's a sysfs knob for that. you can implement your
> local policy with ebtables then.
>
> in the end, we now match hardware switch behaviour rather closely, but
> still additionally allow playing tricks on things like 802.1X.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Lamparter <equinox@diac24.net>
> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Nick Carter <ncarter100@gmail.com>
Forwarding pause frames is wrong.
I wonder if the best solution for this crap is to just write
a userland program to do the forwarding.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-01 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-01 11:12 [PATCH] bridge: revisit IEEE 802 local multicast groups David Lamparter
2011-07-01 16:26 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2011-07-01 16:40 ` David Lamparter
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