Re: [PATCH net] bridge: ebtables: fix reception of frames DNAT-ed to bridge device

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 11:26:08AM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:

Linus Lüssing [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

When trying to redirect bridged frames to the bridge device itself
via the ebtables nat-prerouting chain and the dnat target then this
currently fails:

The ethernet destination of the frame is dnat'ed to the MAC address of
the bridge itself just fine and the correctly altered frame can even
be captured via a tcpdump on br0 (with or without promisc mode).

However, the IP code drops it in the beginning of ip_input.c/ip_rcv()
as the dnat target did not update the skb->pkt_type.

Right, thats the reason why ebtables also has ebt_redirect target
which does this pkt_type fixup.

I'm missing then why redirect is not then just enough for Linus usecase.