Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I still think promiscous mode should disable all filters (which would > also provide a consistent view between accerlated and non-accerlated > devices), but an ethtool option is better than nothing :)
I agree. People doing a tcpdump don't have to turn on promiscuous mode, that's what the -p option is for. In other words, having promiscuous mode disable VLAN filtering does not take away the user's options at all. In fact, the very definition of promiscuous is to turn off hardware filtering, albeit the filtering of MAC addresses rather than VLAN tags. So it would seem logical to have it turn off VLAN filtering too. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
