It is possible to route the bridge packet?

Henrik Nordstrom hno@marasystems.com
Fri Aug 20 12:04:19 CEST 2004


On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, kesineni sai pratap wrote:

> I configured bridge in between two interfaces eth1 , eth2. when
> packet arrives at eth1 , pass through the bridge reaches the eth2. My
> requirement is  send this packets to routing  module, route the packet.

Then you need to tell the bridge to divert the packet to the local host as 
if it hat a destination MAC of the bridge interface.

> I change linux source code making a way for packet to go another 
> interface. iam getting problem in ip_route_input_slow because of 
> fib_lookup.because of that reason my system hangs.

>From my understanding of the bridge no changes should be needed, just a 
matter of configuration.

Regards
Henrik




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