Problem with ng_ether packet flow..

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at cell.sick.ru
Fri May 7 00:50:11 PDT 2004


On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 11:39:06AM +0400, Andrew Riabtsev wrote:
A> JWW> Why the [ng_ether_rcvdata] won't check if packets should travel to 
A> JWW> the [bdg_forward] when they are bridged packets?
A> 
A> This is how it should work, you get entrance to low level network
A> (lower hook) and upper level (upper). To bridge or not to bridge
A> figuring out with ng_bridge or other ng_* modules is up to you to
A> decide. 

  Jian-Wei says a reasonable thing. If he described situation right way,
then it means that using ng_tee on top of ng_ether is incompatible
with bridge(4).

  Someone should look into it.

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