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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:14:01 +0200

> On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 18:06 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:25:55 +0200
> > 
> > > The only way to solve this problem therefore seems to be to suppress the
> > > mirroring out of the packet by dev_queue_xmit_nit(). The patch below
> > > does that by way of adding a new netdev flag.
> > 
> > Multicast packets also get looped back in a similar manner in the ipv4
> > code.  These will also be seen twice due to this issue.
> 
> I don't think these other places are of any interest because of the
> radiotap+802.11 framing on the devices where it is relevant to us; you
> can't actually add an IP route to a monitor interface as far as I can
> tell.

Then I don't understand your problem.  If they are specific 802.11
protocol packets, the radio stack is in a much better situation to
filter out things like this.
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