Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:44:45 +0100 | From | Jiri Pirko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] bonding: allow bond in mode balance-alb to work properly in bridge |
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Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 07:20:03AM CET, davem@davemloft.net wrote: >From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> >Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:11:28 +0100 > >> I can see two solutions. Either like my patch or somehow allow bridge to know >> more MAC addressses per port (maybe netdev can be changed to know more then >> one MAC address). >> >> Any thoughts? > >The netdev struct already supports having a list of multiple unicast >MAC addresses, it can probably be used and inspected for this. Yes I was looking at this thing yesterday (uc_list). But this list serves to different purpose. Do you think that it will be correct to use it for this? I would maybe like to make a new list similar to this for our purpose (say addr_list). I think it would be more correct.
Eventually in the furute we would use this list as a primary place to store device address instead of dev_addr value and make it more general (as device generally may have more adresses). Just a thought...
> >I'll hold off on your patch until we make some more progress on >this discussion.
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