From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Cc: "'Herbert Xu'" <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] macvlan: Move broadcasts into a work queue
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:11:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5348144D.9050607@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6D0F6F5DE1@AcuExch.aculab.com>
On 04/11/2014 01:45 AM, David Laight wrote:
>>> ARP filter would require to inspect the queried IPv4 address, and
>>> macvlan do not currently have a list of IPv4 addresses per port.
>>
>> Indeed. Thanks for snapping us out of our collective daydream :)
>
> You could save the info from ARP responses.
>
> Whether you want that much layer-breaking is another matter.
> By the sound of it, it might be worth doing the deep packet
> inspection at startup.
I wouldn't want to keep history, but in most network scenarios,
having only the interface with the matching MAC answer the APR is good
enough.
I've too much else to worry about to code this up now though.
Thanks,
Ben
--
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-11 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <<20140407075347.GA26461@gondor.apana.org.au>
2014-04-07 7:55 ` [PATCH 1/2] net: Add __dev_forward_skb Herbert Xu
2014-04-07 18:48 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-04-08 7:15 ` Herbert Xu
2014-04-08 16:27 ` David Miller
2014-04-07 7:55 ` [PATCH 2/2] macvlan: Move broadcasts into a work queue Herbert Xu
2014-04-07 14:07 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-04-07 14:23 ` Herbert Xu
2014-04-08 16:48 ` Ben Greear
2014-04-08 17:23 ` Herbert Xu
2014-04-11 1:40 ` David Miller
2014-04-11 1:59 ` Herbert Xu
2014-04-11 2:09 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-04-11 2:13 ` Herbert Xu
2014-04-11 8:45 ` David Laight
2014-04-11 16:11 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2014-04-11 16:20 ` Ben Greear
2014-04-11 16:17 ` Ben Greear
2014-04-08 16:55 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-04-08 17:14 ` Joe Perches
2014-04-09 8:50 ` Herbert Xu
2014-04-09 10:10 ` David Laight
2014-04-10 12:59 ` Herbert Xu
2014-04-10 14:50 ` David Laight
2014-04-07 7:53 [0/2] macvlan: Handle broadcasts in " Herbert Xu
2014-04-17 5:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] net: Add __dev_forward_skb Herbert Xu
2014-04-20 22:19 ` David Miller
2014-04-17 5:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] macvlan: Move broadcasts into a work queue Herbert Xu
2014-04-20 22:20 ` David Miller
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