On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 08:12:29 -0400 Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/13/2013 02:22 AM, "Oleg A. Arkhangelsky" wrote: > > > > > > 13.03.2013, 05:45, "Vlad Yasevich" <vyasevic@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > > >> The series adds an ability for the bridge to function in non-promiscuous mode. > > > > What is the practical applications for such setup? In other words, > > in which cases I would want to put bridge into non-promiscuous > > mode and specify some uplink ports? > > > > On of the applications would be when bridge is an edge device servicing > a VM deployment. Each of the VMs knows the mac address that the guest > has and may program that mac onto the uplinks. Why wouldn't that environment just use macvlan? Is it because changing libvirt is harder than changing the kernel?
