On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 11:26:08AM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote: > Linus Lüssing <linus.luess...@c0d3.blue> wrote: > > When trying to redirect bridged frames to the bridge device itself > > via the ebtables nat-prerouting chain and the dnat target then this > > currently fails: > > > > The ethernet destination of the frame is dnat'ed to the MAC address of > > the bridge itself just fine and the correctly altered frame can even > > be captured via a tcpdump on br0 (with or without promisc mode). > > > > However, the IP code drops it in the beginning of ip_input.c/ip_rcv() > > as the dnat target did not update the skb->pkt_type. > > Right, thats the reason why ebtables also has ebt_redirect target > which does this pkt_type fixup.
I'm missing then why redirect is not then just enough for Linus usecase.
