Florian Westphal <f...@strlen.de> wrote: > Yigal Reiss (yreiss) <yre...@cisco.com> wrote: > > The problem I'm trying to solve is that when packets being sent from > one bridged interface to the other are "brouted" they get dropped by the > IP layer. The reason is that the packet being raised has pkt_type of > type PACKET_OTHERHOST. > > No, thats not the problem you're trying to solve. > > If you want to move OTHERHOST skbs, don't (b)route them? > > Whats the real issue that you're trying to solve?
I want to (b)route them because I want to be able to inspect the packets in higher levels (through iptables or user space IPS). Once I do that (i.e. (b)route by applying an appropriate ebtables rule), the corresponding packets get dropped unless I apply the patch. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
