RHEL 5: Communication may not work in case bridge and VLAN are used at the same time

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Issue

For a NIC without VLAN acceleration, adding a VLAN and a bridge to the interface at the same time makes VLAN interface receive no traffic at all.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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