On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 01:58:10PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
The IEEE standard expects that link local multicast packets will not
be forwarded by a bridge. But there are cases like 802.1X which may
require that packets be forwarded. For maximum flexibilty implement
this via netfilter.
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Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 1:58 PM
To: David Lamparter
Cc: Nick Carter; Ed Swierk; net...@vger.kernel.org; bridge@linux-
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Subject: [RFC] bridge: add netfilter hook
The IEEE standard expects that link local multicast packets will not
be forwarded by a bridge. But there are cases like 802.1X which may
require that packets be forwarded. For maximum flexibilty implement
this via netfilter.
The netfilter chain is slightly different from other chains in that
if
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:18:04 -0500
Christian Benvenuti (benve) be...@cisco.com wrote:
The patch description and the code are clearly saying that STP is
an exception, but I am just worried about the users.
Maybe a proper description in the iptables help is sufficient.
Users may otherwise try
