On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:22 AM, chriss [off-list ref] wrote:

Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian <at> gmail.com> writes:

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I think you should have a look at ebtables command, in particular, the

BROUTING chain of broute

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table. If this chain ask the packet to be dropped, then bridge will ignore it

and give a chance to

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the upper layer to use it. Upper layer might be IP, or in your particular

setup, VLAN.

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HTH,

      Nicolas.

Thank you very much for the ebtables hint.

I also tried to add the vlan to my bridge device but only droping the vlan
tagged paket with ebtables got it working.

I'm not sure if this is the wanted behavior for bridging vlan actions.
..or my network setup is just to ..f%%%'ed up?!

What driver is in use with the NIC you are seeing this on?