Commit 1e253c3b authored Oct 18, 2010 by Benjamin Poirier Committed by David S. Miller Oct 21, 2010

bridge: Forward reserved group addresses if !STP



Make all frames sent to reserved group MAC addresses (01:80:c2:00:00:00 to
01:80:c2:00:00:0f) be forwarded if STP is disabled. This enables
forwarding EAPOL frames, among other things.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent a5c30b34

net/bridge/br_input.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ struct sk_buff br_handle_frame(struct sk_buff skb)
		goto drop;

		/* If STP is turned off, then forward */
		if (p->br->stp_enabled == BR_NO_STP && dest[5] == 0)
		if (p->br->stp_enabled == BR_NO_STP)
		goto forward;

		if (NF_HOOK(NFPROTO_BRIDGE, NF_BR_LOCAL_IN, skb, skb->dev,

Admin message