On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Chris Wright <chr...@sous-sol.org> wrote: > * Srinivasa R Kanduru (skand...@gmail.com) wrote: >> The physical interface is a wireless NIC. I assume that shouldn't have any >> bearing on the behaviour. > > Yes, it does. Seems that OVS ought to do something like: > > Subject: [PATCH] openvswitch: honour IFF_DONT_BRIDGE > From: Chris Wright <chr...@sous-sol.org> > > Especially in the case of wireless, the netdev may not work properly. > So honor IFF_DONT_BRIDGE. > > Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chr...@sous-sol.org>
Thanks Chris. One issue is that OVS can potentially be used to do more than just straight bridging. If you imagine it being used as a bump in the wire to do filtering, for example, then it should still be OK to use with wireless devices. Over time, we've either relaxed or moved to userspace similar checks in order to provide maximum flexibility - i.e. disabling LRO is something that we're now doing in userspace because it's not always strictly necessary and userspace has more information. Can you think of a way to do something similar here? _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
