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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 12327] New: Intermittent TCP issues with =>
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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:27:43 +0100
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Herbert Xu wrote:
> It turns out that even though we have sysctl's that's supposed
> to control pppoe/vlan processing, they don't actually work.

Which reminds me - I think we should change them to default to off,
they regulary break things for unsuspecting users. I'm not sure
though what the best way to warn people for a while would be,
feature-removal-schedule doesn't seem approriate.

> This patch should make them work.
> 
> bridge: Fix handling of non-IP packets in FORWARD/POST_ROUTING
> 
> Currently the bridge FORWARD/POST_ROUTING chains treats all
> non-IPv4 packets as IPv6.  This packet fixes that by returning
> NF_ACCEPT on non-IP packets instead, just as is done in PRE_ROUTING.

Applied, thanks.