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Message-Id: <20100107.005919.138283009.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:59:19 -0800 (PST)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: hawk@...x.dk
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH] net: RFC3069, private VLAN proxy arp support
From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...x.dk>
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:50:47 +0100
> This is to be used together with switch technologies, like RFC3069,
> that where the individual ports are not allowed to communicate with
> each other, but they are allowed to talk to the upstream router. As
> described in RFC 3069, it is possible to allow these hosts to
> communicate through the upstream router by proxy_arp'ing.
>
> This patch basically allow proxy arp replies back to the same
> interface (from which the ARP request/solicitation was received).
>
> Tunable per device via proc "proxy_arp_pvlan":
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/proxy_arp_pvlan
>
> This switch technology is known by different vendor names:
> - In RFC 3069 it is called VLAN Aggregation.
> - Cisco and Allied Telesyn call it Private VLAN.
> - Hewlett-Packard call it Source-Port filtering or port-isolation.
> - Ericsson call it MAC-Forced Forwarding (RFC Draft).
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...x.dk>
Applied.
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