Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Aug 2019 00:12:23 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] net: core: Notify on changes to dev->promiscuity. | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 08:36:24 +0200
> The promiscuity is a way to setup the rx filter. So promics == rx filter > off. For normal nics, where there is no hw fwd datapath, > this coincidentally means all received packets go to cpu.
You cannot convince me that the HW datapath isn't a "rx filter" too, sorry.
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