From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:09:23 +0800
> 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. Ok. The performance implications can be pretty severe however. I wish we could address this somehow. - 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
