From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
Cc: Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <rask@sygehus.dk>,
linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Must dev->set_multicast_list() complete before returning?
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 08:18:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E8B0D43.2000003@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44.0304012242360.1685-100000@beohost.scyld.com
Donald Becker wrote:
>
> I have not seen hardware where setting promiscuous mode is a queued
> command. If you have such hardware, you may have to do some extra
> software filtering and accept missing some packets during transitions.
Every USB network adapter will need to queue such commands,
unless they don't support such operations at all. So you
have probably seen such hardware, without realizing it!
I just looked ... none of them do any extra filtering.
- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-02 16:18 UTC|newest]
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2003-04-02 3:50 ` Must dev->set_multicast_list() complete before returning? Donald Becker
2003-04-02 13:09 ` Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
2003-04-02 16:18 ` David Brownell [this message]
2003-04-02 19:40 ` Donald Becker
2003-04-01 17:26 Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
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