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From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
To: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>, davem@davemloft.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com, daniel@iogearbox.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1] net sched actions: mirred add support for setting Dst MAC address
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2016 10:16:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5777CCD1.8090404@mojatatu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5777CAB7.9050007@cumulusnetworks.com>

On 16-07-02 10:07 AM, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> On 02/07/16 16:02, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
>> On 16-07-02 09:49 AM, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:

>>> Also a minor suggestion - maybe err out on a
>>> zero mac address, otherwise the user might think the operation was successful.
>>>
>>
>> Is a zero mac address wrong? What if that was policy intent?
>>
>
> If you mean that you give the user ability to get rid of the mac, then okay. I said it
> because it will seem like a successful operation and then the mac will not be dumped
> or overwritten which will look like it wasn't set at all.
>

I mean a MAC address of all zeros.
The destination MAC itself is optional attribute; if user doesnt pass it
we (dont care and) never use it. Dumping will not see it and therefore
not display it.

cheers,
jamal

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-02 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-02 13:26 [PATCH net-next 1/1] net sched actions: mirred add support for setting Dst MAC address Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-07-02 13:49 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2016-07-02 14:02   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-07-02 14:07     ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2016-07-02 14:16       ` Jamal Hadi Salim [this message]
2016-07-02 14:26         ` Jamal Hadi Salim

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