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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	Patrick Mullaney <pmullaney@novell.com>,
	Edge Virtual Bridging <evb@yahoogroups.com>,
	Anna Fischer <anna.fischer@hp.com>,
	bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	virtualization@linux-foundation.com,
	Jens Osterkamp <jens@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Gerhard Stenzel <gerhard.stenzel@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] macvlan: Reflect macvlan packets meant for other macvlan devices
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:47:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B055A9B.1090502@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911191244.43916.arnd@arndb.de>

Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 19 November 2009, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>> It seems that we should never drop dst then. We either forward the frame to
>>> netif_rx or to dev_queue_xmit, and from how I read it now, we want to keep
>>> the dst in both cases.
>> When we loop back on our selves we certainly need to have dst clear because
>> we don't know how to cache routes through multiple network namespaces.
> 
> Ah, right. So should I add the explicit dst_drop to the new dev_forward_skb()
> then? The veth driver doesn't need it, but it also looks like it won't hurt.

Yes, I think that should be fine.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-19 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-17 22:39 [PATCH 0/3] macvlan: add vepa and bridge mode Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-17 22:39 ` [PATCH 1/3] macvlan: Reflect macvlan packets meant for other macvlan devices Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-18  6:30   ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-18  9:47     ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-18 14:37       ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-18 14:44         ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-18 23:32         ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-18 23:55           ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-11-19 11:44             ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-19 14:47               ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2009-11-18 10:00   ` roel kluin
2009-11-17 22:39 ` [PATCH 2/3] macvlan: implement VEPA and private mode Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-18  6:42   ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-18  9:48     ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-17 22:39 ` [PATCH 3/3] macvlan: export macvlan mode through netlink Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-18  6:48   ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-18  9:59     ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-19 14:38       ` Patrick McHardy
2009-11-19 14:47         ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-17 22:39 ` [PATCH] iplink: add macvlan options for bridge mode Arnd Bergmann
2009-12-18 13:45   ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-12-18 17:25     ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-12-18 17:37       ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-17 22:56 ` [PATCH 0/3] macvlan: add vepa and " Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-18  9:01 ` Mark Smith
2009-11-27 10:57 ` [PATCH, resend] iproute2/iplink: add macvlan options for " Arnd Bergmann
2009-12-26 19:24   ` Stephen Hemminger

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