From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org,
davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: mark packets sent to any local mac address as PACKET_HOST
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 16:13:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140625161335.11598f09@haswell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1403534015-28496-1-git-send-email-mbizon@freebox.fr>
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:33:35 +0200
Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr> wrote:
> The bridge code only set PACKET_HOST on packets sent to the bridge mac
> address, packets sent to other local mac addresses are sent to upper
> layers, but ignored because they are marked as PACKET_OTHERHOST.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
What are you trying to do? Bridge device itself only has one MAC address.
Are you trying to run macvlan on top of bridge?
We only respond to ARP with bridge's MAC address.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-25 23:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-23 14:33 [PATCH] bridge: mark packets sent to any local mac address as PACKET_HOST Maxime Bizon
2014-06-25 23:09 ` David Miller
2014-06-25 23:13 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2014-06-26 11:15 ` Maxime Bizon
2014-06-26 20:35 ` David Miller
2014-06-26 21:19 ` Maxime Bizon
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