netdev - RE: ixgbe and mac-vlans problem

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Date:	Fri, 7 May 2010 11:40:29 -0600
From:	"Tantilov, Emil S" <emil.s.tantilov@...el.com>
To:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
CC:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: RE: ixgbe and mac-vlans problem

Ben Greear wrote:
> On 05/06/2010 05:06 PM, Tantilov, Emil S wrote:
>> Ben Greear wrote:
>>> On 05/06/2010 10:51 AM, Tantilov, Emil S wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Ben,
>>>> 
>>>> We do have a patch in testing (see attached). It may not apply
>>>> cleanly as it is on top of some other patches currently in
>>>> validation. Let me know if it works for you.
>>> 
>>> It wasn't difficult to backport this patch to 2.6.31.12....
>>> 
>>> I just tested this on an 85998 NIC and 50 MAC-VLANs worked fine.
>>> 
>>> The NIC doesn't show as PROMISC in any way I can detect, but I guess
>>> it must actually be in PROMISC mode:
>> 
>> Yes the interface is in promisc mode. The driver sets the FCTRL.UPE
>> bit (unicast promisc mode) when the number of allowed rar_entries is
>> exceeded. 
> 
> Is there any way to get this setting from ethtool or similar?  It
> would be nice to know the actual PROMISC state of the NIC regardless of
> what user-space has or has not configured.

ethtool -d eth11 | grep -i promisc 

Thanks,
Emil

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