From: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]> 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.

