netdev - Re: MACVLANs really best solution? How about a bridge with multiple bridge virtual interfaces?

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Message-ID: <49B566DF.3040603@candelatech.com>
Date:	Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:58:39 -0700
From:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
CC:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Mark Smith 
	<nanog@...5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: MACVLANs really best solution? How about a bridge with multiple
 bridge virtual interfaces?

Patrick McHardy wrote:

>> Now that I think about it we could call ndo_start_xmit directly
>> from the macvlan code, and bypass whatever hook we use to
>> intercept packets going out the normal device it should not
>> be too difficult.
> 
> We don't intercept packets on TX, they have to be explicitly delivered
> to macvlan.

It might suck for performance, but mac-vlan could register an 'ALL' protocol
on the physical dev, similar to tcp-dump, to grab pkts on tx and pass the
ones it cares about back up to the vlans?

I'd want run-time control to disable any of these costly options for those that
don't need it, however.

Thanks,
Ben

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

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