When implementing VRRP v2 using macvlan several problems were
discovered. VRRP is weird in that all routers participating
in a redundant group use the same virtual MAC address.
Macvlan is a natural driver to use for this but it doesn't
work. The problem is that packets with a macvlan device's
source address are not received.
The problem is actually a regression that date back almost 2 years now.
The original problems started with:
commit
618e1b7482f7a8a4c6c6e8ccbe140e4c331df4e9
Author: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Thu Nov 26 06:07:10 2009 +0000
macvlan: implement bridge, VEPA and private mode
This patches restores the original 2.6.32 behavior. Allowing multicast
packets received with the VRRP source address to be received.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
*/
macvlan_broadcast(skb, port, src->dev,
MACVLAN_MODE_VEPA);
+ else {
+ /* forward to original port. */
+ vlan = src;
+ ret = macvlan_broadcast_one(skb, vlan, eth, 0);
+ goto out;
+ }
+
return RX_HANDLER_PASS;
}