if_bridge forwarding incorrectly forwarding ethernet link local addressed packets (e.g. lldp)

[Andrew Thompson]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:22:53AM +0000, Tom Judge wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> As brought up in the thread "Programming interface MAC filter without 
> enabling PROMISC on an interface from user space." it would seem that 
> if_bridge does not conform to IEEE 802.1D-2004.  Which states:
>
> <quote>
> 7.12.6 Reserved addresses
> Frames containing any of the group MAC Addresses specified in Table 7-10 in 
> their destination address field shall not be relayed by the Bridge. They 
> are configured in the Permanent Database. Management shall not provide the 
> capability to modify or remove these entries from the Permanent or the 
> Filtering Databases. These group MAC Addresses are reserved for assignment 
> to standard protocols, according to the criteria for such assignments 
> (Clause 5.5 of ISO/IEC TR 11802-2).
> </quote>
>
>
> <table 7-10>
>                      Assignment                            Value
> Bridge Group Address                              01-80-C2-00-00-00
> IEEE Std 802.3x Full Duplex PAUSE operation       01-80-C2-00-00-01
> IEEE Std 802.3ad Slow_Protocols_Multicast address 01-80-C2-00-00-02
> IEEE P802.1X PAE address                          01-80-C2-00-00-03
> Reserved for future standardization               01-80-C2-00-00-04
> Reserved for future standardization               01-80-C2-00-00-05
> Reserved for future standardization               01-80-C2-00-00-06
> Reserved for future standardization               01-80-C2-00-00-07
> Reserved for future standardization               01-80-C2-00-00-08
> Reserved for future standardization               01-80-C2-00-00-09
> Reserved for future standardization               01-80-C2-00-00-0A
> Reserved for future standardization               01-80-C2-00-00-0B
> Reserved for future standardization               01-80-C2-00-00-0C
> Reserved for future standardization               01-80-C2-00-00-0D
> Reserved for future standardization               01-80-C2-00-00-0E
> Reserved for future standardization               01-80-C2-00-00-0F
> </table 7-10>
>
> Should I raise a PR about this?

Yes please, just paste the same content in. Thanks for investigating
this, I will sort out a patch.


Andrew