On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 04:04:33PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 10:57:41 +0100 > > From: Martin Pieuchot <m...@openbsd.org> > > > > If it's acceptable performance-wise to do the check unconditionally I > > believe that's the way to go. If not I'm a bit afraid of introducing > > a flag/capability for a single driver. Do you know if any other driver > > could use it? > > I suppose any paravirtualized network driver would need this; i.e. my > sun4v vnet(4) driver and the xen stuff mikeb@ is working on. >
Shouldn't all these interfaces have the PROMISC flag set all the time instead? They seem to be always promiscous since they don't have a HW mac address filter. Doing that would solve the problem in a simple way (special ioctl handling per driver). -- :wq Claudio
