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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] macvlan: Support creating macvlans from macvlans
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:07:49 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B15865.10103@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1bpsellmv.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Thanks.
> Would you be opposed to changes that made macvlan more robust.
> Such as refusing to come up if the macaddress is already in use.
> And perhaps denying the sending of packets with the wrong source
> mac?
>   
I wouldn't deny sending with wrong source mac..ethernet interfaces can 
do this,
and mac-vlan should look as much like ethernet is possible.

I'm all for making it harder to mis-configure things (like dup macs on 
single interface,
etc).

Thanks,
Ben

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



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-06 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-05 23:12 [PATCH] macvlan: Support creating macvlans from macvlans Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-06 13:54 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-06 14:17   ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-06 14:25     ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-06 15:03       ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-06 15:08         ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-06 15:24           ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-06 15:33             ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-06 15:50               ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-06 15:56                 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-06 17:07             ` Ben Greear [this message]
2009-03-06 20:16               ` [PATCH] macvlan: Deterministic ingress packet delivery Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-07 16:36                 ` Ben Greear
2009-03-09 13:25                 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-13 20:16                   ` David Miller
2009-03-13 20:15           ` [PATCH] macvlan: Support creating macvlans from macvlans David Miller

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