[Click] receiving packets with wrong MAC address

[Eddie Kohler]

Hi Peter,

I don't know much about allmulti.  Do your FromDevice elements have the PROMISC 
argument set to false?  True puts the interface into promiscuous mode.  Aside 
from this, userlevel Click will just take whatever packets the kernel stack 
gives it.  I don't _think_ you're seeing a Click-specific behavior.  Try running 
'tcpdump' and see whethter you get all the packets there too.

Eddie


Peter De Cleyn wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have 2 machines, equipped as wireless access points, running a click
> configuration in userspace and I observe that machine A is receiving and
> processing packets with their destination MAC address set to that of
> machine B. ip link shows me that the interface is not in promiscuous
> mode, but allmulti is activated though. Obviously, I expected these
> packets to be dropped by the NIC.
> 
> Is this standard behaviour and if so, can I change it? Of course I can
> create a classifier entry to filter these packets, but it does not seem
> the right way to go.
> 
> thanks!
> 
> Peter
> 
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