From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: [PATCH] macvlan: Support creating macvlans from macvlans Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:07:49 -0800 Message-ID: <49B15865.10103@candelatech.com> References: <49B12B20.7000602@trash.net> <49B13259.9040701@trash.net> <49B13C7D.10308@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Patrick McHardy , David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: "Eric W. Biederman" Return-path: Received: from mail.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.172]:48841 "EHLO ns3.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751039AbZCFRHy (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 12:07:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com