Re: [net V2] act_mirred: do not drop packets when fails to mirror it

2012-08-16 Thread David Miller
From: Jamal Hadi Salim Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 08:11:47 -0400 > On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 14:44 +0800, Jason Wang wrote: >> We drop packet unconditionally when we fail to mirror it. This is not >> intended >> in some cases. Consdier for kvm guest, we may mirror the traffic of the >> bridge >> to a t

Re: [net V2] act_mirred: do not drop packets when fails to mirror it

2012-08-16 Thread Jamal Hadi Salim
On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 14:44 +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > We drop packet unconditionally when we fail to mirror it. This is not intended > in some cases. Consdier for kvm guest, we may mirror the traffic of the bridge > to a tap device used by a VM. When kernel fails to mirror the packet in > conditio