From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@redhat.com>
To: Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>
Cc: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Maciej Zenczykowski <maze@google.com>,
Laurent Chavey <chavey@google.com>,
Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Brandon Philips <brandon.philips@coreos.com>,
Pavel Emelianov <xemul@parallels.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1] ipvlan: Initial check-in of the IPVLAN driver.
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 00:22:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1415748160.2292.8.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHA+R7OZxCLFYetGHONWkL7uzGur=xSc=ASBT4i5EEeS2Xzwog@mail.gmail.com>
On Di, 2014-11-11 at 15:12 -0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com> wrote:
> > This driver is very similar to the macvlan driver except that it
> > uses L3 on the frame to determine the logical interface while
> > functioning as packet dispatcher. It inherits L2 of the master
> > device hence the packets on wire will have the same L2 for all
> > the packets originating from all virtual devices off of the same
> > master device.
>
> Why do we need this from the beginning?
> IOW, what problem does this solve while macvlan doesn't?
I think it is good to reduce the number of mac addresses before a NIC
switches into promisc mode.
Bye,
Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-11 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-11 22:29 [PATCH net-next 1/1] ipvlan: Initial check-in of the IPVLAN driver Mahesh Bandewar
2014-11-11 23:12 ` Cong Wang
2014-11-11 23:19 ` David Miller
2014-11-12 0:37 ` Cong Wang
2014-11-11 23:22 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa [this message]
2014-11-12 0:39 ` Cong Wang
2014-11-12 2:29 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-11-12 2:46 ` Mahesh Bandewar
2014-11-11 23:28 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-11-12 23:36 ` Mahesh Bandewar
2014-11-12 16:11 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2014-11-12 23:56 ` Mahesh Bandewar
2014-11-13 11:07 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2014-11-13 16:50 ` Mahesh Bandewar
2014-11-13 15:57 ` Pavel Emelyanov
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-11-13 23:25 Alexei Starovoitov
2014-11-14 5:47 ` Mahesh Bandewar
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