From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: kaber@trash.net
Cc: auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com, e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
netdev@vger.kernel.org,
djohnson+linux-kernel@sw.starentnetworks.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, joonwpark81@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] [e1000 VLAN] Disable vlan hw accel when promiscuous mode
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:33:42 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071112.143342.10809862.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47388B9F.7050308@trash.net>
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:21:35 +0100
> Do you really consider that a realistic choice? Who is going to
> remove interfaces that are in use just to see traffic for other
> VLANs? Sniffing specific VLANs can always be done on the VLAN
> device itself.
Change the example to wanting to see traffic on another
physical switch.
How is this any different?
> IMO its more a question of what we want promiscous mode to mean,
> and I tend to agree with Joonwoo that it should receive all packets.
On what LAN?
When you select VLAN, you by definition are asking for non-VLAN
traffic to be elided. It is like plugging the ethernet cable
into one switch or another.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-12 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-11 0:51 [PATCH 2/2] [e1000 VLAN] Disable vlan hw accel when promiscuous mode Joonwoo Park
2007-11-12 17:12 ` Kok, Auke
2007-11-12 17:21 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-11-12 18:01 ` Kok, Auke
2007-11-12 22:33 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-11-12 22:43 ` Chris Friesen
2007-11-12 22:54 ` Kok, Auke
2007-11-14 11:48 ` Benny Amorsen
2007-11-12 22:57 ` David Miller
2007-11-12 23:15 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-11-12 23:19 ` David Miller
2007-11-12 23:32 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-11-12 23:38 ` Kok, Auke
2007-11-12 23:40 ` David Miller
2007-11-13 1:21 ` Joonwoo Park
2007-11-13 10:21 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-11-13 11:09 ` Herbert Xu
2007-11-13 11:36 ` David Miller
2007-11-13 12:03 ` Herbert Xu
2007-11-13 12:06 ` David Miller
2007-11-13 12:16 ` Herbert Xu
2007-11-13 12:18 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-11-13 16:41 ` Kok, Auke
2007-11-13 17:26 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-11-13 17:30 ` Kok, Auke
2007-11-14 9:42 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-11-14 23:30 ` Kok, Auke
2007-11-13 19:59 ` Kok, Auke
2007-11-13 12:32 ` David Miller
2007-11-13 1:21 ` Joonwoo Park
2007-11-12 22:28 ` David Miller
2007-11-13 20:43 ` Stephen Hemminger
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-11-14 4:47 Joonwoo Park
2007-11-14 5:12 ` Kok, Auke
2007-11-14 6:15 ` Joonwoo Park
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