netdev - Re: [PATCH 5/6] e1000: Secondary unicast address support

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Date:	Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:18:49 -0800
From:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
To:	Krzysztof Oledzki <olel@....pl>
CC:	Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, jesse.brandeburg@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] e1000: Secondary unicast address support

Krzysztof Oledzki wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Auke Kok wrote:
> 
>> From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
>>
>> Add support for configuring secondary unicast addresses. Unicast
>> addresses take precendece over multicast addresses when filling
>> the exact address filters to avoid going to promiscous mode.
>> When more unicast addresses are present than filter slots,
>> unicast filtering is disabled and all slots can be used for
>> multicast addresses.
> 
> Is there any easy way to use it for VRRP? It would be really great to 
> have two IP addresses on the same interface, each with a different hw 
> address.

mac-vlans should do this for you..with our without the driver patch.

Ben

> 
> Best regards,
> 
>                  Krzysztof Olędzki


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

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