Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 3 authors, 2014-06-26

Re: [PATCH] bridge: mark packets sent to any local mac address as PACKET_HOST

From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: 2014-06-25 23:13:35
Also in: bridge

On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:33:35 +0200
Maxime Bizon [off-list ref] wrote:
The bridge code only set PACKET_HOST on packets sent to the bridge mac
address, packets sent to other local mac addresses are sent to upper
layers, but ignored because they are marked as PACKET_OTHERHOST.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Bizon <redacted>
What are you trying to do? Bridge device itself only has one MAC address.
Are you trying to run macvlan on top of bridge?
We only respond to ARP with bridge's MAC address.
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