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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] app/testpmd: swap mac in IEEE1588 forwarding
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 22:21:21 +0100
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> > IEEE1588 forwarding mode uses same port to receive and transmit packets.
> > In this mode, the MAC address in the packets are not touched, and
> > therefore, packets could be sent with the same destination MAC address as
> > the MAC address of the port that is transmitting, which causes the packet
> > to be dropped in some NICs.
> > 
> > In order to avoid this scenario, MAC addresses are swapped before packet
> > is sent out.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
> 
> Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>

Applied, thanks