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Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:13:37 +0200 From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com> CC: netdev@...r.kernel.org, shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, davem@...emloft.net, jeff@...zik.org Subject: Re: [RFC NET 00/02]: Secondary unicast address support Eric W. Biederman wrote: > I'm trying to understand what the point of this patch is. > > In once sense I find the concept of filtering and listening for multiple > mac addresses very interesting, especially if we could break out different > streams of traffic by destination mac address into separate network devices. > This would remove the need to any kind of ethernet tunnel and makes multiple > network namespaces much more pleasant. > > However this just seems to allow a card to decode multiple mac addresses > which in some oddball load balancing configurations may actually be > useful, but it seems fairly limited. > > Do you have a specific use case you envision for this multiple mac > functionality? > Yes, please see the MACVLAN patch I posted one or two days earlier. 8021q can also make use of it and Dave mentioned some virtualization devices want this as well. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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