On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:29:55 +0100 Jean-Michel Hautbois <jhautbois@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2010/1/13 Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:04:48 -0500 > > Ross Vandegrift <ross@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 09:40:30PM +0000, jhautbois@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> > This is exactly the problem. > >> > But, sounds like it is not possible... ? > >> > >> You could run a custom version of the bridge driver to enable bridging > >> of frames sent to the bridge-management MAC addresses. Some folks > >> have talked about doing similar things to enable bridging of STP. > >> > >> Doing that with STP makes a bit more sense to me (since there are > >> valid networks that could be constructed that way). But you'll be > >> breaking a pretty fundamental assumption of LACP.... > > > > Recent kernels will forward link local frames as long as STP is disabled. > > Older kernels will not. > > > > The assumption is that if STP is enabled, then it will be managing > > control plane. > > Well, I have a 2.6.31 kernel. And LACP is not forwarded, even when STP > is disabled. > I don't understand what you mean ? I meant they get processed locally, before that they were dropped. The best solution is to write an ebtables rule to forward them. _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
