From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: revisit IEEE 802 local multicast groups Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 09:26:12 -0700 Message-ID: <20110701092612.07b045bf@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> References: <1309518770-8547-1-git-send-email-equinox@diac24.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Nick Carter To: David Lamparter Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:46874 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757164Ab1GAQ1o (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jul 2011 12:27:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1309518770-8547-1-git-send-email-equinox@diac24.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 13:12:50 +0200 David Lamparter 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 > Cc: Stephen Hemminger > Cc: Nick Carter 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.