netdev - Re: [PATCH] bridge: mark packets sent to any local mac address as PACKET

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Date:	Wed, 25 Jun 2014 16:13:35 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	Maxime Bizon <mbizon@...ebox.fr>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: mark packets sent to any local mac address as
 PACKET_HOST

On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:33:35 +0200
Maxime Bizon <mbizon@...ebox.fr> 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 <mbizon@...ebox.fr>

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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