Re: --resend-on-iif status

On Friday 04 June 2004 20:16, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 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?

Some devices which appear as one single interface to Linux are really some 
kind of (wireless?) bridge with many ports. If I understood correctly, more 
control over what this hardware forwards is wanted. The hardware can be made 
to give the packets to Linux instead of bridging them, but after Linux has 
played with the packets, they should go back to that hardware. A way to do 
this is make a bridge port out of this interface and force the bridge code to 
deliver the packets back to the input bridge port.
AFAIK the requested functionality (being able to filter, tc, etc. the packets) 
can't be implemented by only altering the driver code.

cheers,
Bart



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