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From: Yoann Juet <yoann.juet@univ-nantes.fr>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Ariel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: bnx2x + SR-IOV, no internal L2 switching
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:42:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52FC9370.5030400@univ-nantes.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1392246640.15615.37.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>


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Hi Ben,

 > Are you're using the ISC DHCP client, which puts the interface in
> promiscuous mode?  If the Broadcom NIC supports promiscuous mode on VFs,
> that may explain what you're seeing.

No, I put the interface into promiscuous mode with Wireshark's tshark 
command line tool.

> I think these VFs don't support promiscuous mode.  Anyway, the ixgbevf
> driver silently ignores it.

This could be an explanation. Ariel Elior sent to me a patch. Test in 
progress.

Regards,
-- 
Université de Nantes - Direction des Systèmes d'Information

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      reply	other threads:[~2014-02-13  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-12 13:33 bnx2x + SR-IOV, no internal L2 switching Yoann Juet
2014-02-12 14:38 ` Ariel Elior
2014-02-12 15:54   ` Yoann Juet
2014-02-12 23:10 ` Ben Hutchings
2014-02-13  9:42   ` Yoann Juet [this message]

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