Re: 2.6.12: connection tracking broken?

Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.netfilter.devel,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.network.bridge.ebtables.devel
Organization Core
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Patrick McHardy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The bridge-netfilter code defers calling of some NF_IP_* hooks to the
> bridge layer, when the conntrack reference is already gone, so the entry

Why does it defer them at all? Shouldn't the fact that the device is
bridged be transparent to the IP layer?

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