Re: [Bridge] Re: [PATCH/RFC] Let {ip, arp}tables "see" bridged VLAN tagged {I, AR}P packets

[Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 06 October 2003 22:24, Ben Greear wrote:
> Bart De Schuymer wrote:
> > - add some code in vlan_dev.c::vlan_dev_hard_start_xmit():
> > skb->protocol = __constant_htons(ETH_P_8021Q);
> > skb->mac.raw -= VLAN_HLEN;
> > skb->nh.raw -= VLAN_HLEN;
>
> I wonder if this is what was messing up the tcpdump packet capture
> as well?

A wrong Ethernet header pointer should probably do the trick.

> It would be fine with me if you un-conditionally exported the
> vlan hard-start-xmit pointer, but I don't feel strongly either way.

Me neither. I just let Dave decide in those cases :-)

cheers,
Bart