Ah, got ya -- L3 only. Well, I guess that's just the way it works then.

Thanks,
Will

-----Original Message-----
From: David Coulson [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 4:28 PM
To: Will Dennis
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] Weird problem with trunking on RedHat EL 6.x

On 5/3/12 4:21 PM, Will Dennis wrote:
> Now, can one consider this a bug as relates to systems with 802.1q 
> trunking on a NIC? (Shouldn't the reverse path checking be VLAN tag
> aware?) Caveat: I'm not really a Linux guy, and certainly not a kernel

> hacker, so I don't know how much work it would be to implement this 
> type of checking...
Reverse Path filtering is all ipv4 - All it worries about is your
routing table. It doesn't know/care the difference between eth0.168 and
eth1 for the actual connected interface.

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