From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Cc: mst@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, jhs@mojatatu.com,
john.r.fastabend@intel.com, shemminger@vyatta.com
Subject: Re: [Bridge] [PATCH 4/7] bridge: Automatically manage port promiscuous mode.
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 08:58:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140226085826.6d9567df@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1393427905-6811-5-git-send-email-vyasevic@redhat.com>
On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 10:18:22 -0500
Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com> wrote:
> When there is only 1 flooding port, this port is programmed
> with all the address the bridge accumulated. This allows
> us to place this port into non-promiscuous mode.
> At other times, all ports are set as promiscuous. To help
> track whether the bridge set the mode or not, a new
> flag is introduced.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
This mixes the definition of outbound (flooding) and inbound (promiscuous).
Not sure if this is safe in all cases.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-26 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-26 15:18 [Bridge] [PATCH RFC 0/7] Non-promisc bidge ports support Vlad Yasevich
2014-02-26 15:18 ` [Bridge] [PATCH 1/7] bridge: Turn flag change macro into a function Vlad Yasevich
2014-02-26 15:29 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-26 15:36 ` Vlad Yasevich
2014-02-26 15:18 ` [Bridge] [PATCH 2/7] bridge: Keep track of ports capable of flooding Vlad Yasevich
2014-02-26 15:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-26 15:41 ` Vlad Yasevich
2014-02-26 15:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-27 11:59 ` Toshiaki Makita
2014-02-27 12:54 ` Vlad Yasevich
2014-02-26 15:18 ` [Bridge] [PATCH 3/7] bridge: Add addresses from static fdbs to bridge address list Vlad Yasevich
2014-02-26 15:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-26 15:43 ` Vlad Yasevich
2014-02-26 16:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-26 17:25 ` Vlad Yasevich
2014-02-26 17:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-26 16:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-02-26 17:35 ` Vlad Yasevich
2014-02-27 7:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-27 13:08 ` Vlad Yasevich
2014-02-27 13:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-26 15:18 ` [Bridge] [PATCH 4/7] bridge: Automatically manage port promiscuous mode Vlad Yasevich
2014-02-26 15:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-26 16:02 ` Vlad Yasevich
2014-02-26 16:58 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2014-02-26 17:32 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-26 15:18 ` [Bridge] [PATCH 5/7] bridge: Correctly manage promiscuity when user requested it Vlad Yasevich
2014-02-26 15:18 ` [Bridge] [PATCH 6/7] bridge: Manage promisc mode when vlans are configured on top of a bridge Vlad Yasevich
2014-02-26 16:00 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-26 16:05 ` Vlad Yasevich
2014-02-26 16:25 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-27 12:06 ` Toshiaki Makita
2014-02-27 13:17 ` Vlad Yasevich
2014-02-28 19:34 ` Vlad Yasevich
2014-03-01 14:57 ` Toshiaki Makita
2014-03-03 12:12 ` Vlad Yasevich
2014-02-26 15:18 ` [Bridge] [PATCH 7/7] bridge: Support promisc management when all ports are non-flooding Vlad Yasevich
2014-02-26 15:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-27 3:46 ` Vlad Yasevich
2014-02-27 7:29 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-26 16:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-26 16:34 ` [Bridge] [PATCH RFC 0/7] Non-promisc bidge ports support Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-02-26 23:59 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-02-27 3:37 ` Vlad Yasevich
2014-02-27 8:54 ` Amidu Sila
2014-02-27 7:20 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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