On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:56:25PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> Daemons which send LLDP advertisements (e.g. ladvd and lldpd) need to
> send frames on trunk member ports in order that the individual port can
> be identified to the switch; currently there is a blanket restriction
> on sending via these ports, the following diff changes this to permit
> AF_UNSPEC and pseudo_AF_HDRCMPLT as suggested by Sten Spans (ladvd
> author).
> 
> Comments? OK?

Hmm, that feels a bit too unrestrictive.
I remember a cisco that was utterly confused when it received
STP on its trunkports. 
I wonder if there's sth in the standard about extra traffic
on the trunkports.

OTOH, if reyk@ only added the check as an extra safety net,
I'm fine with this.

reyk?


> Index: if_ethersubr.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/net/if_ethersubr.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.152
> diff -u -p -r1.152 if_ethersubr.c
> --- if_ethersubr.c    5 Oct 2012 17:17:04 -0000       1.152
> +++ if_ethersubr.c    16 Jan 2013 22:51:19 -0000
> @@ -227,7 +227,8 @@ ether_output(ifp0, m0, dst, rt0)
>  #endif
>  
>  #if NTRUNK > 0
> -     if (ifp->if_type == IFT_IEEE8023ADLAG)
> +     if (ifp->if_type == IFT_IEEE8023ADLAG && dst->sa_family != AF_UNSPEC
> +         && dst->sa_family != pseudo_AF_HDRCMPLT)
>               senderr(EBUSY);
>  #endif

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