netdev - Re: Connection tracking and vlan

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Date:	Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:40:21 -0400
From:	Adayadil Thomas <adayadil.thomas@...il.com>
To:	Caitlin Bestler <caitlin.bestler@...il.com>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: Re: Connection tracking and vlan

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Caitlin Bestler
<caitlin.bestler@...il.com> wrote:
> Yes, it is legitimate for a Bridge to see two different 10.*.*.*
> networks on different VLANs.
> A Bridge can even see that same MAC address being used by two
> different end stations
> on different VLANs (especially if the global bit is not set).
>
> What is not legitimate is presenting both of those 10.*.*.* networks
> for local delivery.
>

I did not mean this case.

> If you are only bridging the frames then there are no connections to
> track, only frames.
>

This is more like what I was trying to do with the device, but with
stateful firewall functionality
for which I was using iptables/netfilter.

Thanks
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