From: Jay Vosburgh <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:28:25 -0800
> Zheng Li <[email protected]> wrote: > >>Do not modify or load balance ARP packets passing through balance-alb >>mode (wherein the ARP did not originate locally, and arrived via a bridge). >> >>Modifying pass-through ARP replies causes an incorrect MAC address >>to be placed into the ARP packet, rendering peers unable to communicate >>with the actual destination from which the ARP reply originated. >> >>Load balancing pass-through ARP requests causes an entry to be >>created for the peer in the rlb table, and bond_alb_monitor will >>occasionally issue ARP updates to all peers in the table instrucing them >>as to which MAC address they should communicate with; this occurs when >>some event sets rx_ntt. In the bridged case, however, the MAC address >>used for the update would be the MAC of the slave, not the actual source >>MAC of the originating destination. This would render peers unable to >>communicate with the destinations beyond the bridge. >> >>Signed-off-by: Zheng Li <[email protected]> >>Cc: Jay Vosburgh <[email protected]> >>Cc: Andy Gospodarek <[email protected]> >>Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]> > > Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <[email protected]> Applied. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
