From: Nicolas Cavallari <Nicolas.Cavallari@lri.fr>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bogus MAC in netfilter-queue for IF_MULTICAST_LOOPed packets.
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:05:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DE62B01.7070707@lri.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1106011223410.19261@frira.zrqbmnf.qr>
>> The LOG target display these packets as having no MAC address (Indeed,
>> the multicast loop code strips the MAC header).
>
> Headers are not stripped.
>
> The "lo" device is of type loopback, so there will be no MAC header
> generated at all, because none is necessary. Subsequently, there is
> nothing to strip.
The multicast loopback code does not use the lo device, it uses netif_rx
on the output interface.
see ip_dev_loopback_xmit() at net/ipv4/ip_output.c:118. it does a
skb_reset_mac_header() and a __skb_pull(skb_network_offset()).
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-01 12:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-01 9:36 Bogus MAC in netfilter-queue for IF_MULTICAST_LOOPed packets Nicolas Cavallari
2011-06-01 10:31 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-06-01 12:05 ` Nicolas Cavallari [this message]
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