Re: broute problems

Bart De Schuymer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.network.bridge.ebtables.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Op ma, 22-08-2005 te 16:23 +0200, schreef Clifford Wolf:
> Hi,
> 
> (please let me know if this is not the right mailing list)
> 
> I'm using the broute table and have the following problem with it: It looks
> like the linux kernel bridge fdb learning mechanism is triggered before the
> broute table. So packages which are not ment for the brigde (DROPed in
> broute) are not bridged but do update the fdb entries.
> 
> In my (somehow bizare but still valid) setup this is an absolute
> showstopper bug since the linux bridge code has no support for static fdb
> entries (that would be a nice-to-have, btw ;-).
> 
> can anyone help? is this a known problem?

Yes, it's a known problem, there was a discussion on the lists some time
ago. See

http://search.gmane.org/search.php?query=bridge+ebtables+interaction&email=&group=gmane.linux.network.bridge.ebtables.user&sort=date

cheers,
Bart




-------------------------------------------------------
SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO
September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices
Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA
Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.