On 2/28/21 5:53 PM, Henry Shen wrote: > When an IPv4 packet with a destination address of broadcast is received > on an ingress interface, it will not be forwarded out of the egress > interface if the ingress interface is not configured with bc_forwarding > but the egress interface is. If both the ingress and egress interfaces > are configured with bc_forwarding, the packet can be forwarded > successfully. > > This patch is to be inline with Cisco's implementation that packet can be > forwarded if ingress interface is NOT configured with bc_forwarding, > but egress interface is. >
In Linux, forwarding decisions are made based on the ingress device, not the egress device.
