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Date:	Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:58:24 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
CC:	hadi@...erus.ca, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	jeff@...zik.org, auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com
Subject: Re: Multiqueue and virtualization WAS(Re: [PATCH 3/3] NET: [SCHED]
 Qdisc changes and sch_rr added for multiqueue

Ben Greear wrote:
> Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
>> Right, but the current bridging code always uses promiscous mode
>> and its nice to avoid that if possible. Looking at the code, it
>> should be easy to avoid though by disabling learning (and thus
>> promisous mode) and adding unicast filters for all static fdb entries.
>>   
> 
> I am curious about why people are so hot to do away with promisc mode. 
> It seems to me
> that in a modern switched environment, there should only very rarely be
> unicast packets received
> on an interface that does not want to receive them.


I don't know if that really was Dave's reason to handle it in a driver.

> Could someone give a quick example of when I am wrong and promisc mode
> would allow
> a NIC to receive a significant number of packets not really destined for
> it?


In a switched environment it won't have a big effect, I agree.
It might help avoid receiving unwanted multicast traffic, which
could be more significant than unicast.

Anyways, why be wasteful when it can be avoided .. :)

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