Re: [PATCH] bridge: Forward EAPOL Kconfig option BRIDGE_PAE_FORWARD

[Nick Carter <ncarter100@gmail.com>]

On 28 June 2011 19:58, David Lamparter <equinox@diac24.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 07:34:57PM +0100, Nick Carter wrote:
>> > Yes, the default is a dumb hub (IMHO correctly so). And a dumb hub will
>> > forward 802.1X packets (IMHO also correctly so).
>> >
>> > Why should we specifically add a knob for EAPOL? Next we're adding one
>> > for STP itself, then one for LLDP, then one for Cisco's deprecated
>> > crap (CDP, DTP, ...) etc.
>> >
>> > If you want a dumb hub that drops EAPOL, use ebtables.
>> >
>> > -David
>> >
>> >
>> If we are not going to have an EAPOL knob, but we are going to act as
>> a repeater when STP is off then we still need these diffs to forward
>> the PAE group address.
>> (In fact we cant just act as a repeater because of the recent ethernet
>> bonding regression)
>>
>> diff --git a/net/bridge/br_input.c b/net/bridge/br_input.c
>> index 90e985b..267f581 100644
>> --- a/net/bridge/br_input.c
>> +++ b/net/bridge/br_input.c
>> @@ -163,7 +163,8 @@ struct sk_buff *br_handle_frame(struct sk_buff *skb)
>>                         goto drop;
>>
>>                 /* If STP is turned off, then forward */
>> -               if (p->br->stp_enabled == BR_NO_STP && dest[5] == 0)
>> +               if (p->br->stp_enabled == BR_NO_STP &&
>> +                       (dest[5] == 0 || skb->protocol == htons(ETH_P_PAE)))
>>                         goto forward;
>> Nick
>
> That code actually looks quite wrong to me, we should be forwarding all of
> the 01:80:C2:00:00:0x groups in non-STP mode, especially :0E and :0D.
> (LLDP and GVRP/MVRP)
>
> Pause frames are the one exception that makes the rule, but as the
> comment a few lines above states, "Pause frames shouldn't be passed up by
> driver anyway".
>
> Btw, what might make sense is a general knob for forwarding those
> link-local groups, split off from the STP switch so the STP switch
> controls only the :00 (STP) group. That way you can decide separately
> whether you want to be LLDP/GVRP/802.1X/... transparent and whether you
> want to run STP.

Sounds good to me.  So we go for :03, :0D, and :0E.  We cant touch :02 see:
 commit f01cb5fbea1c1613621f9f32f385e12c1a29dde0
 Revert "bridge: Forward reserved group addresses if !STP"

> Not sure if it's needed, it can always be done with ebtables...
What would be the ebtables rules to achieve the forwarding of :03 ?  I
asked this question on the netfilter list and the only response I got
said ebtables was a filter and could not do this. :03 is hitting
NF_BR_LOCAL_IN.  How would you 'reinject' it so it is forwarded ?

Thanks
Nick

>
>
> -David
>
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