Ben Greear wrote: > Ard van Breemen wrote: >> Hello Ben, >> I want to start supporting macvlan's in debian (with debian style >> "auto" configuration). >> I'm just not so charmed with the name macvlan_config. >> Is it ok if I rename that (in the resulting package) to mvconfig? > > That is fine by me. > >> I think that macvlan's are essential if you want to do "pure" >> vrrp implementations (with mac-address failover). > > I have re-written the mac-vlan patch a bit lately, primarily to > simplify the code and remove functionality I never used (and thus, never > tested.) > > The main changes: > > * Allow only matching on the destination MAC, not the source. > Uh? Surely source MAC matching is what MAC address based VLANs (on any platform) should be about. So that you can group hosts into VLANs. > * Allow only matching a single MAC address, not a list. > (Removed the hash lookup logic as well.) > Why? Surely the point of VLANs is to group *multiple* hosts into virtual LANs. > If you want to re-add this functionality, lets talk about it. > > I also fixed some crashes on module removal and some locking > logic. > > The patch is now included in our combined patch, but you can > split it out easily enough. You can find the patch here: > > http://www.candelatech.com/oss/candela_2.6.17.patch > > The latest vconfig/mvl_config snapshot is here: > http://www.candelatech.com/oss/vlan-2006-08-04.tgz > > This seems to be completely unrelated now to the patch I originally sent to this list. This is not a problem in itself, but I can't see how the functionality still relates to MAC address based VLANs.... Alex
