Messages in this thread | | | From | Veaceslav Falico <> | Subject | [PATCH net-next 0/2] bonding: use correct ether type for alb | Date | Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:41:56 +0100 |
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Hi,
There have been reports that, while using the ETH_P_LOOP ether type (0x0060), the ether type is treated as its packet length.
To avoid that and to not break already existing apps - add new ether type ETH_P_LOOPBACK that contains the correct id - 0x9000.
CC: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> CC: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> CC: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de> CC: Neil Jerram <Neil.Jerram@metaswitch.com> CC: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> CC: Arvid Brodin <Arvid.Brodin@xdin.com> CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
--- drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c | 2 +- include/uapi/linux/if_ether.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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