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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] bridge: Automatically manage port
	promiscuous mode.
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 08:58:26 -0800
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On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 10:18:22 -0500
Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com> wrote:

> When there is only 1 flooding port, this port is programmed
> with all the address the bridge accumulated.  This allows
> us to place this port into non-promiscuous mode.
> At other times, all ports are set as promiscuous.  To help
> track whether the bridge set the mode or not, a new
> flag is introduced.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>

This mixes the definition of outbound (flooding) and inbound (promiscuous).
Not sure if this is safe in all cases.