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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: IPv4 traffic in 802.2 LLC SNAP frames queued to netfilter ...
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:30:04 +0100
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To: Jonothan Kane <jonothan.kane@gmail.com>
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Jonothan Kane wrote:
> Hey all;
> 
> I've got 2 devices connected through a transparent bridge.
> One of the devices uses the old Ethernet frame format as
> datalink transport the other uses the common Ethernet II
> format.  The Ethernet II formated frames are being
> received by the netfilter connection tracking, while the
> old style frames are not.
> 
> Is this normal ?
> 
> Are old style Ethernet frames just not sent to the netfilter
> connection tracking system?
> 
> Thanks for any help or information.

Linux doesn't handle IP in SNAP and the bridge netfilter code
also doesn't.