On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Claudio Jeker
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I think something like the attached version may be the best solution.
> I don't like to do the bcmp() for every unicast packet since network cards
> come with nice mac filters that make this superfluous.
> From code inspection bridge(4) should handle this case correctly and
> trunk(4) will behave better because of this. Then there is carp(4) and
> vlan(4) which reenter ether_input(). Both should do the right thing
> (vlan checks the flags and carp does a lookup based on the dest mac addr).

Ok. I'll apply that tomorrow morning.

> In the end such a change needs a lot of testing.

Is there anything specifically you want me to test? I was planning to
do some performance testing anyway; the box is not in production and
won't be for a few more weeks.

Cheers,

Patrick
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