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From: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: stephen@networkplumber.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: mark packets sent to any local mac address as PACKET_HOST
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 23:19:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140626211948.GA7077@sakura.staff.proxad.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140626.133550.975175623908419742.davem@davemloft.net>


On Thursday 26 Jun 2014 à 13:35:50 (-0700), David Miller wrote:

> > for some reasons, hostapd kept adding and removing the interface from
> > the bridge, triggering a mac address of the bridge change each time (I
> > did not notice that).
> 
> I think this is what you need to investigate rather than making
> changes to the bridge layer.

Of course I fixed the problem with hostapd, I was just explaining how
I noticed that behaviour in the bridge code.

If that behaviour is intended then just forget that patch.

-- 
Maxime

      reply	other threads:[~2014-06-26 21:19 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
2014-06-26 11:15   ` Maxime Bizon
2014-06-26 20:35     ` David Miller
2014-06-26 21:19       ` Maxime Bizon [this message]

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