From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: "Yigal Reiss (yreiss)" <yreiss@cisco.com>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] brouted packet identified as PACKET_OTHERHOST blocked by higher protocol
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 13:05:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150714110501.GC25674@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3167EFAB95044A4EB6B134B9A39AA98A055B5DBE@xmb-rcd-x05.cisco.com>
Yigal Reiss (yreiss) <yreiss@cisco.com> wrote:
> The problem I'm trying to solve is that when packets being sent from one bridged interface to the other are "brouted" they get dropped by the IP layer. The reason is that the packet being raised has pkt_type of type PACKET_OTHERHOST.
No, thats not the problem you're trying to solve.
If you want to move OTHERHOST skbs, don't (b)route them?
Whats the real issue that you're trying to solve?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-14 11:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-14 10:37 [PATCH] brouted packet identified as PACKET_OTHERHOST blocked by higher protocol Yigal Reiss (yreiss)
2015-07-14 11:05 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2015-07-14 11:18 ` Yigal Reiss (yreiss)
2015-07-14 11:35 ` Florian Westphal
2015-07-14 11:52 ` Yigal Reiss (yreiss)
2015-07-14 11:59 ` Florian Westphal
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