netdev - Re: [PATCH net-2.6] bonding: drop frames received with master's source MAC

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Date:	Wed, 2 Mar 2011 20:30:04 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Nicolas de Pesloüan 
	<nicolas.2p.debian@...il.com>
Cc:	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>,
	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6] bonding: drop frames received with master's
	source MAC

On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 11:10:07AM +0100, Nicolas de Pesloüan wrote:
>
> If one decide to configure two interfaces with the same MAC and connect them
> to the same LAN, then we get the exact same situation. Having eth0 and eth1
> share a single MAC and a single IP address, connected to a switch in
> Etherchannel mode is a perfectly valid setup, while suboptimal. And if the
> Etherchannel mode happens to be improperly configured, we end up with the
> same problem as reported by Andy.

Right.  There's also the case where you have other MAC addresses
sitting behind the bonding device, e.g., virtualisation.  So basing
it purely on the bonding device's MAC address is probably not worth
the trouble.

Cheers,
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