[Bridge] Bridging EAPOL

[Andre Beliveau (QB/EMC)]

Hi, 
 I had gotten that far also.  What I was going to try now was enable
ebtables and see if I can force packet to go through with some clever
filter.

Do you think it would work?

/AB

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:shemminger at osdl.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 2:02 PM
> To: Andre Beliveau (QB/EMC)
> Cc: 'bridge at lists.osdl.org'
> Subject: Re: [Bridge] Bridging EAPOL
> 
> This is what is trapping your frames.
> 
> br_input.c:br_handle_frame
> 	if (p->br->stp_enabled &&
> 	    !memcmp(dest, bridge_ula, 5) &&
> 	    !(dest[5] & 0xF0)) {
> 
> I didn't write it (Lennert did), and wouldn't change it 
> without finding the relevant place in the standard.  I 
> looked, and the 802.1d standard is kind of obtuse about 
> multicast addresses. They often write these standards as 
> spec's with yet another spec on how to map the standard to 
> real LAN's...
> 
> 
> --
> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger at osdl.org>
> OSDL http://developer.osdl.org/~shemminger
> 
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