Re: Re :Re: Re :Re: Re :Re: Bridging LACP (802.3ad) frames not working

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:53:10 +0100
Jean-Michel Hautbois <jhautbois@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 2010/1/13 Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:47:14 +0000
> > jhautbois@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> >> (snip)
> >> > I meant they get processed locally, before that they were dropped.
> >>
> >> > The best solution is to write an ebtables rule to forward them.
> >>
> >> Mmh, I can understand that, but I can't see which kind of rule would do
> >> that.
> >> Something like :
> >> ebtables -A FORWARDING -p 0x8809 -j ACCEPT ??
> >>
> >> But I think this will not do anything, because it is forwarding by default.
> >> Or there is something I can't see :-).
> >>
> >
> > You need to put the rule on the local input not forwarding chain.
> >
> 
> You mean :
> ebtables -A INPUT -p 0x8809 -j ACCEPT ?
> 
> According to my understanding of this graph :
> http://ebtables.sourceforge.net/br_fw_ia/PacketFlow.png
> I can't understand why it has to be in the INPUT...

Because bridge input processing puts all link local packets to
the local input path.
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