[RP-PPPoE] PPPoE relay - forwards unknown MAC address packets

[Ashmath Khan]

Hi,

can somebody please reply ?

thank you.

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Ashmath Khan <hashmat.email at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am seeing an issue with pppoe relay agent with forwarding packets
> having unknown MAC address.
> Say I have a device with eth0 and eth1 interface.
> eth0 - client side (LAN)
> eth1 - server side (WAN)
>
> After PPPoE session is established,
> from eth1 send a PPPoE packet with unknown MAC address. Its seen that
> the packet gets forwarded onto eth0 and received by the client on LAN
> side.
>
> Is there a way PPPoE relay agent can filter these kind of packets with
> unknown MAC address ?
>
> thanks
> Hashmat
>