Re: Any issues with packet updates?

Scott MacKay <scottmackay-/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.network.bridge.ebtables.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--- Bart De Schuymer <[email protected]> wrote:
> The PREROUTING chain is traversed before the bridge
> has decided if the frame 
> has to be bridged. Perhaps you are also mangling
> packets that will never be 
> bridged?
Would that cause problems?  I thought that packets
which would not be bridged would simply get dropped
(since it d should not need to re-introduce it back
onto the original interface).  Currently, my simple
test is to just pump packets from 1 of the dual homed
machines to the other and even that seems to have
problems.  My preference is to not introduce it on the
FORWARD chain because the iptables QUEUE userspace
module only gets the logical device ('br0').  It is
nice using pre/post routing because I only get either
the indev_name or the outdev_name fields filled, so I
know which direction it is going.  When I did try it
on the FORWARD I got indev & outdev both 'br0'.  Not
too useful....

-Scott

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