Jean-Michel Hautbois
2010-Jan-13 16:53 UTC
[Bridge] Re :Re: Re :Re: Re :Re: Bridging LACP (802.3ad) frames not working
2010/1/13 Stephen Hemminger <shemminger at vyatta.com>:> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:47:14 +0000 > jhautbois at gmail.com wrote: > >> (snip) >> > I meant they get processed locally, before that they were dropped. >> >> > The best solution is to write an ebtables rule to forward them. >> >> Mmh, I can understand that, but I can't see which kind of rule would do >> that. >> Something like : >> ebtables -A FORWARDING -p 0x8809 -j ACCEPT ?? >> >> But I think this will not do anything, because it is forwarding by default. >> Or there is something I can't see :-). >> > > You need to put the rule on the local input not forwarding chain. >You mean : ebtables -A INPUT -p 0x8809 -j ACCEPT ? According to my understanding of this graph : http://ebtables.sourceforge.net/br_fw_ia/PacketFlow.png I can't understand why it has to be in the INPUT... JM
Stephen Hemminger
2010-Jan-13 16:55 UTC
[Bridge] Re :Re: Re :Re: Re :Re: Bridging LACP (802.3ad) frames not working
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:53:10 +0100 Jean-Michel Hautbois <jhautbois at gmail.com> wrote:> 2010/1/13 Stephen Hemminger <shemminger at vyatta.com>: > > On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:47:14 +0000 > > jhautbois at gmail.com wrote: > > > >> (snip) > >> > I meant they get processed locally, before that they were dropped. > >> > >> > The best solution is to write an ebtables rule to forward them. > >> > >> Mmh, I can understand that, but I can't see which kind of rule would do > >> that. > >> Something like : > >> ebtables -A FORWARDING -p 0x8809 -j ACCEPT ?? > >> > >> But I think this will not do anything, because it is forwarding by default. > >> Or there is something I can't see :-). > >> > > > > You need to put the rule on the local input not forwarding chain. > > > > You mean : > ebtables -A INPUT -p 0x8809 -j ACCEPT ? > > According to my understanding of this graph : > http://ebtables.sourceforge.net/br_fw_ia/PacketFlow.png > I can't understand why it has to be in the INPUT...Because bridge input processing puts all link local packets to the local input path.