From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [NET 00/02]: MACVLAN driver
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:00:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070619090027.3312f2cf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070619130825.26769.23059.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:08:41 +0200 (MEST)
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> wrote:
> These patches add a rewritten version of Ben's macvlan driver, which
> allows to create virtual ethernet devices. The underlying device is
> put in promiscous mode and packets are demuxed based on MAC address.
> It behaves similar to bridge devices in that packets are visible on
> the real device before delivery to the macvlan driver. The driver
> supports all features of the underlying device except VLAN
> acceleration, this is currently very hard to support. I might look
> into this in the future.
>
> The main downside of this driver is that it adds another hook in
> netif_receive_skb, unfortunately that is unavoidable. When not
> compiled in the hook vanishes of course.
>
> Usage is simple:
>
> # ip link add link eth0 type macvlan
>
> Will create a macvlan0 device with a random MAC address on top of
> eth0. No iproute patches are required.
>
>
> Please apply, thanks.
>
Looks good. I have some changes to allow devices with multiple MAC addresses
(never finished). This device could use that.
--
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-19 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-19 13:08 [NET 00/02]: MACVLAN driver Patrick McHardy
2007-06-19 13:08 ` [ETHERNET 01/02]: Validate new address in eth_mac_addr Patrick McHardy
2007-06-19 13:08 ` [NET 02/02]: Add MACVLAN driver Patrick McHardy
2007-06-19 16:00 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2007-06-19 19:53 ` [NET 00/02]: " Chris Leech
2007-06-19 21:14 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-19 22:29 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-06-19 22:48 ` David Miller
2007-06-19 23:44 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-20 6:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-20 19:35 ` Prafulla Deuskar
2007-06-21 14:57 ` Patrick McHardy
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-06-24 4:52 Mark Smith
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