From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Linux Network Development list <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Question about David's blog entry for NetCONF 2006, Day 1
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:15:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45130EF2.2090509@hp.com> (raw)
I was reading David's blog entries on the netdev meeting in Japan, and
have a question about this bit:
> Currently, things like Xen have to put the card into promiscuous
> mode, accepting all packets, which is quite inefficient.
Is the inefficient bit meant for accepting all packets, or more broadly
that the promiscuous path is quite inefficient compared to the
non-promiscuous path?
I ask because I would have thought that if the system were connected to
a switch (*), the number of packets received through a NIC in
promiscuous mode would be nearly the same as when it was not in
promiscuous mode - the delta being (perhaps) multicast frames.
rick jones
(*) "Today," it seems 99 times out of 10 systems are connected to
switches not hubs.
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2006-09-21 22:15 Rick Jones [this message]
2006-09-22 15:47 ` Question about David's blog entry for NetCONF 2006, Day 1 Brent Cook
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