Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6] bonding: drop frames received with master's source MAC

From: Nicolas de Pesloüan<[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:30:27 +0100

Le 02/03/2011 13:30, Herbert Xu a écrit :
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 11:10:07AM +0100, Nicolas de Pesloüan wrote:
>>
>> If one decide to configure two interfaces with the same MAC and connect them
>> to the same LAN, then we get the exact same situation. Having eth0 and eth1
>> share a single MAC and a single IP address, connected to a switch in
>> Etherchannel mode is a perfectly valid setup, while suboptimal. And if the
>> Etherchannel mode happens to be improperly configured, we end up with the
>> same problem as reported by Andy.
>
> Right.  There's also the case where you have other MAC addresses
> sitting behind the bonding device, e.g., virtualisation.  So basing
> it purely on the bonding device's MAC address is probably not worth
> the trouble.
>
> Cheers,

I'm afraid we miss a general way to fix the general problem. We probably need to handle the problem 
at every places that can suffer from the multicast loop, until we find a general fix, if ever.

	Nicolas.