From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmxnet3: initialize receive mode correctly Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 08:53:56 -0700 Message-ID: <20140801085356.64eb5bb7@haswell.linuxnetplumber.net> References: <20140725105037.26769945@haswell.linuxnetplumber.net> <2434669.uPKS10IHqv@xps13> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org To: Thomas Monjalon Return-path: In-Reply-To: <2434669.uPKS10IHqv@xps13> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org Sender: "dev" On Fri, 01 Aug 2014 16:50:06 +0200 Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 2014-07-25 10:50, Stephen Hemminger: > > The driver must listen to broadcast packets, like other devices. > > Otherwise protocols like ARP won't work! > > > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger > > > - vmxnet3_dev_set_rxmode(hw, VMXNET3_RXM_UCAST | VMXNET3_RXM_ALL_MULTI, 1); > > + vmxnet3_dev_set_rxmode(hw, VMXNET3_RXM_UCAST | VMXNET3_RXM_BCAST, 1); > > It's also removing multicast at init. No comment so I assume everybody agrees. Just following what initial value for bare metal drivers is.