On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 3:53 AM, Marcel Holtmann <mar...@holtmann.org> wrote: > Hi Lennart, > >>> There seems to be no way in systemd-networkd to put a link in >>> Promiscuous mode. This is needed to make macvlan work correctly >>> (Otherwise it receives no traffic with its mac address as the >>> destination). If I am not mistaken this could be a boolean in *.link >>> files. >> >> Sounds useful. Added to the todo list. > > actually this sounds like a design mistake. If macvlan requires the network > interface in promiscuous mode, then it should do that internally. > > Inside the kernel the promiscuous mode is actually reference counted. This > can for example be utilized from packet(7) sockets. That way you do not > accidentally leave a device in promiscuous mode if all users are gone. > > So why not fix macvlan to put the parent into promiscuous mode.
Yeah, this sounds like a kernel bug. If there is some independent reason to unconditionally enable promiscuous mode, we could consider it. Otherwise, I'd let it be. Cheers, Tom _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
