Re: --resend-on-iif status

Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.network.bridge.ebtables.devel
Organization Open Source Development Lab
Message-ID <20040604111614.63dc94f3@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net>
On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 10:59:17 +0200
Karel Rericha <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have tracked my problem with disabling traffic between wireless 
> stations in hostap to allow
> shaping this traffic with htb to
> 
> /br_forward.c/
> 
> probably to function
> 
> 
> /static inline int should_deliver(struct net_bridge_port *p, struct 
> sk_buff *skb)
> {
>     if (skb->dev == p->dev ||
>         p->state != BR_STATE_FORWARDING)
>             return 0;
> 
>     return 1;
> }

Rather than hacking the bridge code and risking routing loops and other
nasty's, why not change the wireless driver to have a "reflect all packets"
flag?



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