Jiri Pirko wrote:

Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:53:13AM CET, kaber@trash.net wrote:

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Me neither, but I don't think this approach can be done without the
hook. While I still find it questionable whether this mode really
needs to be supported for a bridge at all

Well there is I think nothing unusual in this net scheme. And by for example
the increasing setups with kvm/bridging it will be needed more and more.

Mangling ARP packets for load-balancing purposes seems quite unusual.

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, an alternative approach
would be to have bonding add FDB entries for all secondary MACs to
make bridging treat them as local.

Yes - that is the clear way. But there's not really straihtforward way to do
this. The clear approach would be to extend struct net_device for list of these
mac addresses and let the drivers (binding) fill it and bridge to process it.
But I don't know.

We have a list of secondary unicast addresses, but that might not
be suitable in this case since the addresses are (mostly) intended
not to be visible to the stack if I understood correctly.