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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: allow bond in mode balance-alb to work
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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:20:03 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:11:28 +0100

> I can see two solutions. Either like my patch or somehow allow bridge to know
> more MAC addressses per port (maybe netdev can be changed to know more then
> one MAC address).
> 
> Any thoughts?

The netdev struct already supports having a list of multiple unicast
MAC addresses, it can probably be used and inspected for this.

I'll hold off on your patch until we make some more progress on
this discussion.