Re: [PATCH] allow VLAN interface on top of bridge interface

From: Jerome Borsboom <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:50:00 +0200 (CEST)

> When a VLAN interface is created on top of a bridge interface and 
> netfilter is enabled to see the bridged packets, the packets can be 
> corrupted when passing through the netfilter code. This is caused by the 
> VLAN driver not setting the 'protocol' and 'nh' members of the sk_buff 
> structure. In general, this is no problem as the VLAN interface is mostly 
> connected to a physical ethernet interface which does not use the 
> 'protocol' and 'nh' members. For a bridge interface, however, these 
> members do matter.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jerome Borsboom <[email protected]>

I'll apply this, thanks a lot Jerome.
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