From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: mark packets sent to any local mac address as PACKET_HOST Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 16:13:35 -0700 Message-ID: <20140625161335.11598f09@haswell> References: <1403534015-28496-1-git-send-email-mbizon@freebox.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, davem@davemloft.net To: Maxime Bizon Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1403534015-28496-1-git-send-email-mbizon@freebox.fr> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: bridge-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: bridge-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:33:35 +0200 Maxime Bizon 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 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.