[Bridge] Preventing packet reassembly

Patrick McHardy kaber at trash.net
Mon May 5 11:10:10 PDT 2008


Leigh Sharpe wrote:
> I have iptables rules on the management interface of the box, but not on
> any of the ports which participate in bridging.
> By removing iptables from my bootup, I get a properly functioning
> bridge.

Connection tracking performs defragmentation for all packets,
independant of the ruleset. For briding the packets should get
re-fragmented when leaving the bridge device though.

Please try "iptables -t raw -I PREROUTING -i <br-dev> -j TRACE",

load the ipt_LOG module and post the output.



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