On Tue, 2006-27-06 at 12:03 +0200, Thomas Graf wrote:

* Patrick McHardy [off-list ref] 2006-06-27 00:29

quoted

Doesn't sound too silly (actually quite nifty in my opinion),
but I'm not sure I understand correctly, binding to ifb doesn't
work since it changes both skb->dev and skb->input_dev.

I don't understand this concern. So far the mirred action
updates iif but that can be made configurable.

I am reading the thread backwards, so i may miss some of the obvious.
I also dont remember the exact discussion we had - but the consensus was
to leave the field setting as is.
Note the meta-setter (been sitting on it for too long) also set the
input_dev.

BTW, in regards to the VLANs, what is wrong with using the
netdev->iflink to figure the real device? 

cheers,
jamal