[Bridge] Bridge and PACKET-socket

[Eble, Dan]

On Tuesday 13 January 2004 12:41:55 -0800, Bart De Schuymer wrote:
> Reading the man page is indeed confusing for a user, w.r.t. bridge ports.
> I think it would be more logical if all PF_PACKET
> sockets see the frames before the bridge code.

I agree.  I just ran into this problem trying to read bridge PDUs from a
daemon listening on a packet socket.  I'm glad I found this thread; it saved
me a lot of debugging time.

> How about placing the call to __handle_bridge() right after the second 
> list_for_each? If I'm not mistaken the relevant pt_pre->func that would
deal 
> with the packet will not have been executed yet, while those PF_PACKET 
> functions will already have been called...

Has anyone tested this in the two weeks since it was suggested?

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