VMWare's e1000 implementation does not seem to support unicast filtering.
This can be observed by configuring a macvlan interface on eth0 in a VM in
VMWare Fusion 5.0.5, and trying to use that interface instead of eth0.
Tested on 3.16.
Signed-off-by: Francesco Ruggeri <frugg...@arista.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
index 5f6aded..24f3986 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
@@ -1075,7 +1075,10 @@ static int e1000_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const
struct pci_device_id *ent)
NETIF_F_HW_CSUM |
NETIF_F_SG);
- netdev->priv_flags |= IFF_UNICAST_FLT;
+ /* Do not set IFF_UNICAST_FLT for VMWare's 82545EM */
+ if (hw->device_id != E1000_DEV_ID_82545EM_COPPER ||
+ hw->subsystem_vendor_id != PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE)
+ netdev->priv_flags |= IFF_UNICAST_FLT;
adapter->en_mng_pt = e1000_enable_mng_pass_thru(hw);
--
1.8.1.4
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