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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Connection tracking and vlan
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:31:50 +0100
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Herbert Xu a =E9crit :
> Adayadil Thomas <adayadil.thomas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> If two connections have same 5 tuple, src ip, dst ip, src port, dst
>> port, protocol(tcp/udp)
>> but on different vlans (different vlan id), does the conntrack separ=
ate these ?
>=20
> Probably not.  Patrick, can you confirm this?
>=20

Very strange, this question about vlan looks like discussion we had
yesterday (or the day before...) about interfaces (versus packet defrag=
mentation)

"IP conntracking" is about IP, and [V]LAN doesnt matter at all at this =
protocol level.

Same thing if you have two interfaces, eth0 & eth1 : IP conntrack tuple=
s dont
include interface name/index