From: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
To: Ajith Adapa <adapa.ajith@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: Regarding group_forward_mask in bridge in 3.4 kernel
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:24:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <505740C1.9080706@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADAe=++yAm3t-ZqMKy9h-Rda5=pOYQD2-cKUd3S1VKmBZQfT9A@mail.gmail.com>
On 9/17/2012 7:43 AM, Ajith Adapa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to enable group_fwd_mask in bridge by giving the below
> command so that it can forward provider bpdu's whose destination
> address is 01-80-C2-00-00-08.
>
> echo 8 > /sys/class/net/vpc1_br/bridge/group_fwd_mask
>
wrong value see the logic you quoted use 1 << 8
echo 256 > /sys/class/net/...
Your example fwds non-TPMR addresses 01-80-c2-00-00-03.
[...]
> Am I giving wrong value for group_fwd_mask ??
Yep wrong value.
> I tried other values but seems only 8 and 0 is accepted.
The logic makes an attempt to restrict forwarding by masking 0x4007u,
catching many known control protocols.
See commit for details,
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=515853ccecc6987dfb8ed809dd8bf8900286f29e
.John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-17 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-17 14:43 Regarding group_forward_mask in bridge in 3.4 kernel Ajith Adapa
2012-09-17 15:24 ` John Fastabend [this message]
2012-09-18 8:30 ` Ajith Adapa
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