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SubjectRe: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: dsa: lan9303: Transmit using ALR when unicast
On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 03:48:00PM +0100, Egil Hjelmeland wrote:
> lan9303_xmit_use_arl() introduced in previous patch set is wrong.
> The chip flood broadcast and unknown multicast frames. The effect is that
> broadcasts and multicasts are duplicated on egress. It is not possible to
> configure the chip to direct unknown multicasts to CPU port only.
>
> This means that only unicast frames can be transmitted using ALR lookup.
>
> Signed-off-by: Egil Hjelmeland <privat@egil-hjelmeland.no>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>

Andrew

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