Herbert Xu wrote:

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 05:58:11PM -0600, John Dykstra wrote:

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I haven't unscrambled where the drop occurs in the PPPoE driver, but that's
presumably what changed in 2.6.27.  It seems to me that the drop is proper.
What's wrong is trimming the sk_buff to match the IP header while ignoring
the L2 header, and that's apparently been that way for a while (if I
understand what the reporter is running where).

Or have I screwed up my first posting to netdev?

You've hit the nail on the head :)

The bridge netfilter is just one huge pile of crap that should
be deleted.

Fully agreed. So far unfortunately nobody had the stomach to
get rid of this piece of junk.