Re: VIF setup

["Jan Kundrát" <jan.kundrat@fzu.cz>]

Derrik Pates wrote:
> Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> 
>> Am I the only person who sees this as a tad odd? I can't escape 
>> thinking about a real bridge. Seems to me each eth or vif you add to a 
>> bridge should retain its IP and the bridge, basically being a device 
>> that does mac-layer routing, has no IP. 
> 
> 
> No, because the IP(s) assigned to a device cause the device to only 
> accept packets destinde for it; when the IP is 0.0.0.0, the interface 
> goes into promiscuous mode, and so it accepts all packets, whether 
> destined for it or not. Then, the bridge device enslaves all the 
> interfaces, and transports the packets among the participant interfaces.

Isn't promisciuous mode L2 based? If you do `ifconfig eth0 promisc`, 
it'll pass all packets, even those having foreign destination MAC 
address, to upper layers, AFAIK.

-jkt

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