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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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On Sunday 14 February 2010, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> tun module already support RX filtering, however,
> this is limited to filtering by mac address.
> For virtio host, we also need filtering by vlan.
> 
> Rather than adding this directly, it seems cleaner
> to add generic socket filter support.

Great idea, I was wondering how to do vlan filtering
in macvtap with trunk mode. I guess it would be
straightforward to do the same patch in macvtap, right?

	Arnd