From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: introduce a list of device addresses dev_addr_list (v6) Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 16:12:04 -0700 Message-ID: <20090508161204.134668b9@nehalam> References: <20090505124827.GB3473@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com> <20090505.122718.51237316.davem@davemloft.net> <20090508153842.65ce3bed@s6510> <20090508.160008.127530143.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jpirko@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, shemminger@linux-foundation.org, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, fubar@us.ibm.com, bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, kaber@trash.net, mschmidt@redhat.com, dada1@cosmosbay.com, ivecera@redhat.com To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:44116 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751039AbZEHXMM (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2009 19:12:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090508.160008.127530143.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 08 May 2009 16:00:08 -0700 (PDT) David Miller wrote: > From: Stephen Hemminger > Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 15:38:42 -0700 > > > Not sure if this is such a good idea since the purpose of this was to fix > > a bonding/bridging interaction, but it breaks STP on bridging. > > Thanks for not paying attention... :-/ > > The Intel folks want to have an address list functionality so > they can public MAC addresses meant for FCOE and other purposes. > > So even if the bonding bits bomb, we still need this. But the other infrastructure may have same issues (netfilter, etc). Just seems like it would be either to have multiple network devices so that upper layers could disambiguate easier. --