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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: fix looped (broad|multi)cast's MAC handling.
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:27:58 +0200
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On 10.06.2011 09:20, Nicolas Cavallari wrote:
> By default, when broadcast or multicast packet are sent from a local
> application, they are sent to the interface then looped by the kernel
> to other local applications, going throught netfilter hooks in the process.
> 
> These looped packet have their MAC header removed from the skb by the kernel
> looping code.
> This confuse various netfilter's netlink queue, netlink log and the
> legacy ip_queue, because they try to extract a hardware
> address from these packets, but extracts a part of the IP header instead.
> 
> This patch prevent NFQUEUE, NFLOG and ip_QUEUE to include a MAC header
> if there is none in the packet.

Applied, thanks Nicolas.