On Thursday 13 August 2009, Fischer, Anna wrote:
This patch adds a 'hairpin' (also called 'reflective relay') mode
port configuration to the Linux Ethernet bridge kernel module.
A bridge supporting hairpin forwarding mode can send frames back
out through the port the frame was received on.
This patch adds a 'hairpin' (also called 'reflective relay') mode
port configuration to the Linux Ethernet bridge kernel module.
A bridge supporting hairpin forwarding mode can send frames back
out through the port the frame was received on.
Hairpin mode is required to support basic VEPA (Virtual
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_if.c b/net/bridge/br_if.c
index eb404dc..e486f1f 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_if.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_if.c
@@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ static struct net_bridge_port *new_nbp(struct net_bridge
*br,
p-path_cost = port_cost(dev);
p-priority = 0x8000
From: Fischer, Anna anna.fisc...@hp.com
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:55:16 +
This patch adds a 'hairpin' (also called 'reflective relay') mode
port configuration to the Linux Ethernet bridge kernel module.
A bridge supporting hairpin forwarding mode can send frames back
out through the port
