Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:43:26 -0800 | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] [e1000 VLAN] Disable vlan hw accel when promiscuous mode |
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On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 09:51:20 +0900 "Joonwoo Park" <joonwpark81@gmail.com> wrote:
> IMHO even though netdevice is in the promiscuous mode, we should receive all of ingress packets. > This disable the vlan filtering feature when a vlan hw accel configured e1000 device goes into promiscuous mode. > This make packets visible to sniffers though it's not vlan id of itself. > Any check, comments will be appreciated. > Thanks. > > Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwpark81@gmail.com>
Promiscuous has other uses such as bridging. Would this patch break any existing users startup scripts? - 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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