[Bridge] 802.1q packets

Fulvio Ricciardi fulvio.ricciardi at zeroshell.net
Tue Jul 22 10:40:32 PDT 2008


> Fulvio Ricciardi wrote:
> > I notice that with the Kernel 2.6.25.9 the 802.1q VLAN
> > tagged packets larger than 1470 bytes are not forwarded
> > at all by a bridge.
> > I think there is a bad interaction between bridge and
> > netfilter codes. Any chance to a have a patch to solve
> > this problem that limit the possibility to use the Linux
> > bridges in a environment with VLANs?
> 
> Is it maybe problem described here?
> 
>  
>
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/bridge/2007-May/005436.html
> 
> If so, it was reported more than one year ago and still
> none of developers care about it.
> 

Yes, it is exactly the same problem. Thanks for the patch
that I hope developers will include it in the vanilla Kernel
as soon as possible.

Regards 
Fulvio Ricciardi


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