Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] datapath: Reset upper layer protocol info on internal devices.

2012-05-17 Thread Jesse Gross
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:53:14AM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote: >> It's possible that packets that are sent on internal devices (from >> the OVS perspective) have already traversed the local IP stack. >> After they go through the internal device, t

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] datapath: Reset upper layer protocol info on internal devices.

2012-05-17 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:53:14AM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote: > It's possible that packets that are sent on internal devices (from > the OVS perspective) have already traversed the local IP stack. > After they go through the internal device, they will again travel > through the IP stack which may ge

[ovs-dev] [PATCH] datapath: Reset upper layer protocol info on internal devices.

2012-05-17 Thread Jesse Gross
It's possible that packets that are sent on internal devices (from the OVS perspective) have already traversed the local IP stack. After they go through the internal device, they will again travel through the IP stack which may get confused by the presence of existing information in the skb. This