netdev - Re: [PATCH] macvlan: Deterministic ingress packet delivery

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Date:	Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:36:29 -0800
From:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] macvlan:  Deterministic ingress packet delivery

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >From 22d0a3e4ffa91f85c224d171ed7cc2d64a6dda00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 09:16:30 -0800
> Subject: 
>
> Changing the mac address when a macvlan device is up will leave the
> device on the wrong hash chain making it impossible to receive
> packets.
>   
I see no problem with this, but Patrick knows the code better...

Might be nice to use a bigger hash some day, but can deal with that 
separately.

Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com> 
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


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