[PATCH] Add bridged IPv6 packet filtering
Henrik Nordstrom
hno at marasystems.com
Thu Sep 2 10:31:05 CEST 2004
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Yasuyuki Kozakai wrote:
> You forgot to find "Jumbo Payload Option" in Hop-by-Hop Options header.
> Other options may exist in this header.
>
> And please truncate packet if actual packet length is greater than
> Jumbo Payload Length + IPv6 header length.
Hmm.. a bridge should not touch the packet content unless absolutely
needed to fulfill the Ethernet requirements. Why should it do this on
IPv6?
Does Netfilter require that too large packets have been truncated?
Regards
Henrik
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