Re: [PATCH 4/7] bridge: Automatically manage port promiscuous mode.

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 10:18:22 -0500
Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When there is only 1 flooding port, this port is programmed
> with all the address the bridge accumulated.  This allows
> us to place this port into non-promiscuous mode.
> At other times, all ports are set as promiscuous.  To help
> track whether the bridge set the mode or not, a new
> flag is introduced.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@xxxxxxxxxx>

This mixes the definition of outbound (flooding) and inbound (promiscuous).
Not sure if this is safe in all cases.





[Index of Archives]     [Netdev]     [AoE Tools]     [Linux Wireless]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Security]     [Linux for Hams]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux Admin]     [Samba]     [Video 4 Linux]

  Powered by Linux