netdev - Re: [PATCH] bonding: allow bond in mode balance-alb to work properly in bridge -try4

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Message-ID: <20090327074654.GC3377@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:46:55 +0100
From:	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	jgarzik@...ox.com, shemminger@...ux-foundation.org,
	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, fubar@...ibm.com,
	bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, kaber@...sh.net,
	mschmidt@...hat.com, dada1@...mosbay.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: allow bond in mode balance-alb to work
	properly in bridge -try4

Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:38:19AM CET, davem@...emloft.net wrote:
>From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
>Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:52:06 +0100
>
>> (resend, updated changelog, hook moved into skb_bond_should_drop,
>> skb_bond_should_drop ifdefed)
>> 
>> Hi all.
>> 
>> The problem is described in following bugzilla:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487763
> ...
>> This patch solves the situation in the bonding without touching bridge code,
>> as Patrick suggested. For every incoming frame to bonding it searches the
>> destination address in slaves list and if any of slave addresses matches, it
>> rewrites the address in frame by the adress of bonding master. This ensures that
>> all frames comming thru the bonding in alb mode have the same address.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
>
>
>I don't like the hook, but if that's how it's best done....

Yes I agree with you, but I thing that for now it's the best way to do this. I
picked this solution out of 3 that I had in mind and this is the lesser evil :)
If anyone have any other solution please speak up.

>
>Patrick, please review this.
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