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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: hawk@comx.dk
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH] net: RFC3069, private VLAN proxy arp support
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:28:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B4465C3.9090403@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1262771369.9474.80.camel@jdb-workstation>

Le 06/01/2010 10:49, Jesper Dangaard Brouer a écrit :

> This patch solved the issue by doing proxy arp'ing on the router against
> the "local" network, thus making it possible for customers to
> communicate, but via the router.  This also gives the ability to do
> firewalling on the router between customers on an Ethernet. (In our
> solution the Linux router also have a personal firewall configurable per
> customer.)
> 
> It is simply enabled on an interface via e.g.:
> 
>  echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth2.1013/proxy_arp_pvlan
> 
> Hope that helps your understand the idea and usage :-)
> 

Excellent, thanks for sharing !

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-06 10:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-05 15:50 [net-next PATCH] net: RFC3069, private VLAN proxy arp support Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2010-01-06  6:03 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-01-06  9:49   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2010-01-06 10:28     ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2010-01-06 12:52     ` Mark Smith
2010-01-06 14:17       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2010-01-06 14:35         ` Mark Smith
2010-01-06 18:59       ` Jan Ceuleers
2010-01-07  8:59 ` David Miller

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