netdev - Re: Connection tracking and vlan

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Message-ID: <20091030154639.GA8197@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:46:39 -0400
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Adayadil Thomas <adayadil.thomas@...il.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: Re: Connection tracking and vlan

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 04:31:50PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
> Same thing if you have two interfaces, eth0 & eth1 : IP conntrack tuples dont
> include interface name/index

Indeed, but imagine what happens when eth0 is the LAN and eth1 is
the wild wild Internet.  Do you really want their packets to mix?

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