[PATCH 5/6] e1000: Secondary unicast address support

2007-11-13 Thread Auke Kok
From: Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add support for configuring secondary unicast addresses. Unicast addresses take precendece over multicast addresses when filling the exact address filters to avoid going to promiscous mode. When more unicast addresses are present than filter slots, unicast

Re: [PATCH 5/6] e1000: Secondary unicast address support

2007-11-13 Thread Krzysztof Oledzki
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Auke Kok wrote: From: Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add support for configuring secondary unicast addresses. Unicast addresses take precendece over multicast addresses when filling the exact address filters to avoid going to promiscous mode. When more unicast

Re: [PATCH 5/6] e1000: Secondary unicast address support

2007-11-13 Thread Ben Greear
Krzysztof Oledzki wrote: On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Auke Kok wrote: From: Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add support for configuring secondary unicast addresses. Unicast addresses take precendece over multicast addresses when filling the exact address filters to avoid going to promiscous mode.

Re: [PATCH 5/6] e1000: Secondary unicast address support

2007-11-13 Thread Krzysztof Oledzki
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Ben Greear wrote: Krzysztof Oledzki wrote: On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Auke Kok wrote: From: Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add support for configuring secondary unicast addresses. Unicast addresses take precendece over multicast addresses when filling the exact address

Re: [PATCH 5/6] e1000: Secondary unicast address support

2007-11-13 Thread Ben Greear
Krzysztof Oledzki wrote: I'm afraid mac-vlans is not a solution here. Having 2x more interfaces (ex. 2000 instead of 1000) makes everything (especially routing, firewalling and QoS) much more complicated. It would be nice to have something like ip addr add a.b.c.d/24 dev vlan32 hwaddress

Re: [PATCH 5/6] e1000: Secondary unicast address support

2007-11-13 Thread Krzysztof Oledzki
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Ben Greear wrote: Krzysztof Oledzki wrote: I'm afraid mac-vlans is not a solution here. Having 2x more interfaces (ex. 2000 instead of 1000) makes everything (especially routing, firewalling and QoS) much more complicated. It would be nice to have something like ip

Re: [PATCH 5/6] e1000: Secondary unicast address support

2007-11-13 Thread David Miller
From: Auke Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:11:33 -0800 From: Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add support for configuring secondary unicast addresses. Unicast addresses take precendece over multicast addresses when filling the exact address filters to avoid going to