Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:33:42 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] [e1000 VLAN] Disable vlan hw accel when promiscuous mode | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:21:35 +0100
> Do you really consider that a realistic choice? Who is going to > remove interfaces that are in use just to see traffic for other > VLANs? Sniffing specific VLANs can always be done on the VLAN > device itself.
Change the example to wanting to see traffic on another physical switch.
How is this any different?
> IMO its more a question of what we want promiscous mode to mean, > and I tend to agree with Joonwoo that it should receive all packets.
On what LAN?
When you select VLAN, you by definition are asking for non-VLAN traffic to be elided. It is like plugging the ethernet cable into one switch or another. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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