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    bridge: Extend Proxy ARP design to allow optional rules for Wi-Fi · 842a9ae0
    Jouni Malinen authored
    This extends the design in commit 95850116 ("bridge: Add support for
    IEEE 802.11 Proxy ARP") with optional set of rules that are needed to
    meet the IEEE 802.11 and Hotspot 2.0 requirements for ProxyARP. The
    previously added BR_PROXYARP behavior is left as-is and a new
    BR_PROXYARP_WIFI alternative is added so that this behavior can be
    configured from user space when required.
    
    In addition, this enables proxyarp functionality for unicast ARP
    requests for both BR_PROXYARP and BR_PROXYARP_WIFI since it is possible
    to use unicast as well as broadcast for these frames.
    
    The key differences in functionality:
    
    BR_PROXYARP:
    - uses the flag on the bridge port on which the request frame was
      received to determine whether to reply
    - block bridge port flooding completely on ports that enable proxy ARP
    
    BR_PROXYARP_WIFI:
    - uses the flag on the bridge port to which the target device of the
      request belongs
    - block bridge port flooding selectively based on whether the proxyarp
      functionality replied
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJouni Malinen <jouni@codeaurora.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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