From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] macvlan: Support creating macvlans from macvlans
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:07:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B15865.10103@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1bpsellmv.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Thanks.
> Would you be opposed to changes that made macvlan more robust.
> Such as refusing to come up if the macaddress is already in use.
> And perhaps denying the sending of packets with the wrong source
> mac?
>
I wouldn't deny sending with wrong source mac..ethernet interfaces can
do this,
and mac-vlan should look as much like ethernet is possible.
I'm all for making it harder to mis-configure things (like dup macs on
single interface,
etc).
Thanks,
Ben
--
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-06 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-05 23:12 [PATCH] macvlan: Support creating macvlans from macvlans Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-06 13:54 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-06 14:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-06 14:25 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-06 15:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-06 15:08 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-06 15:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-06 15:33 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-06 15:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-06 15:56 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-06 17:07 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2009-03-06 20:16 ` [PATCH] macvlan: Deterministic ingress packet delivery Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-07 16:36 ` Ben Greear
2009-03-09 13:25 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-13 20:16 ` David Miller
2009-03-13 20:15 ` [PATCH] macvlan: Support creating macvlans from macvlans David Miller
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