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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] bonding: allow bond in mode balance-alb to work properly in bridge -try4
    Jiri Pirko wrote:
    > Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:53:13AM CET, kaber@trash.net wrote:
    >> >
    >> > Me neither, but I don't think this approach can be done without the
    >> > hook. While I still find it questionable whether this mode really
    >> > needs to be supported for a bridge at all
    >
    > Well there is I think nothing unusual in this net scheme. And by for example
    > the increasing setups with kvm/bridging it will be needed more and more.

    Mangling ARP packets for load-balancing purposes seems quite unusual.

    >> , an alternative approach
    >> would be to have bonding add FDB entries for all secondary MACs to
    >> make bridging treat them as local.
    >
    > Yes - that is the clear way. But there's not really straihtforward way to do
    > this. The clear approach would be to extend struct net_device for list of these
    > mac addresses and let the drivers (binding) fill it and bridge to process it.
    > But I don't know.

    We have a list of secondary unicast addresses, but that might not
    be suitable in this case since the addresses are (mostly) intended
    not to be visible to the stack if I understood correctly.


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