netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/2] tun: linux socket filter support

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Message-Id: <201002151647.26532.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:47:26 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com>,
	David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@...el.com>,
	Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] tun: linux socket filter support

On Sunday 14 February 2010, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> tun module already support RX filtering, however,
> this is limited to filtering by mac address.
> For virtio host, we also need filtering by vlan.
> 
> Rather than adding this directly, it seems cleaner
> to add generic socket filter support.

Great idea, I was wondering how to do vlan filtering
in macvtap with trunk mode. I guess it would be
straightforward to do the same patch in macvtap, right?

	Arnd
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