Subject: Re: [PATCH] brouted packet identified as PACKET_OTHERHOST blocked by higher protocol

From: Florian Westphal <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 13:05:01 +0200

Yigal Reiss (yreiss) <[email-masked]> wrote:
> The problem I'm trying to solve is that when packets being sent from one bridged interface to the other are "brouted" they get dropped by the IP layer. The reason is that the packet being raised has pkt_type of type PACKET_OTHERHOST.

No, thats not the problem you're trying to solve.

If you want to move OTHERHOST skbs, don't (b)route them?

Whats the real issue that you're trying to solve?