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From: Nick Carter <ncarter100@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, benjamin.poirier@gmail.com,
	davem@davemloft.net, shemminger@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: Forward EAPOL when STP off
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:30:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=kUSr9yeOkyjn5oYcn6gtiFTKf_w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110604224209.5c784729@s6510.ftrdhcpuser.net>

Stephen,

It doesn't look like ebtables can do this
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netfilter/msg51200.html

I've written some new diffs that I will send out to netdev.

Thanks,
Nick

On 4 June 2011 14:42, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 16:59:13 +0100
> Nick Carter <ncarter100@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Signed-off-by: Nick Carter <ncarter100@gmail.com>
>>
>> If STP is disabled then forward frames destined to the 802.1X PAE group
>> address (01-80-C2-00-00-03)
>>
>> This change is required to support virtual machines running an 802.1X
>> supplicant and bridged to an ethernet interface.
>>
>> This change has been tested and works fine with a range of supplicants.
>
> No. This is getting messy and starts down the path of the recent
> 802.3ad change which just got reverted. A better solution is needed
> than individual hacky standards breaking. If you really need to do
> this, use the "duct tape" of networking ebtables.
>
> See also:
> https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/bridge/2007-November/005638.html
>

      reply	other threads:[~2011-06-23 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-02 15:59 [PATCH] bridge: Forward EAPOL when STP off Nick Carter
2011-06-04 13:42 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-06-23 21:30   ` Nick Carter [this message]

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