From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] virtio_net: Add a MAC filter table
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:33:05 +0000
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On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 14:13 -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> Make use of the MAC_TABLE control virtqueue class to support a
> MAC filter table.  The size of the filter table defaults to 16
> entries and can be adjusted via the mac_entries module parameter.
> Note, the original hardware address does not count towards this.
> 
> As with most real hardware, unicast addresses have priority in
> the filter table so we can avoid enabling full promiscuous
> until both unicast and multicast address overflow.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com

Acked-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>

Cheers,
Mark.