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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] e1000: Secondary unicast address support
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:18:49 -0800
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Cc: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>, davem@davemloft.net,
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To: Krzysztof Oledzki <olel@ans.pl>
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Krzysztof Oledzki wrote:
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> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Auke Kok wrote:
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>> From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
>>
>> Add support for configuring secondary unicast addresses. Unicast
>> addresses take precendece over multicast addresses when filling
>> the exact address filters to avoid going to promiscous mode.
>> When more unicast addresses are present than filter slots,
>> unicast filtering is disabled and all slots can be used for
>> multicast addresses.
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> Is there any easy way to use it for VRRP? It would be really great to=
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> have two IP addresses on the same interface, each with a different hw=
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> address.

mac-vlans should do this for you..with our without the driver patch.

Ben

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> Best regards,
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>                  Krzysztof Ol=EAdzki


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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com