netdev - Re: [PATCH] macvlan: Propagate promiscuity setting to lower devices.

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Message-Id: <20150504.001456.193382168898312074.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 04 May 2015 00:14:56 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vyasevich@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, vyasevic@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] macvlan: Propagate promiscuity setting to lower
 devices.

From: Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
Date: Fri,  1 May 2015 17:36:37 -0400

> When a macvlan device is placed in promiscuous mode, it currently
> just sets it's multicast mask to permissive, but doesn't change
> the state of the lower device.  As a result, not all multicast
> traffic can be received on such device.  Additionally, none of
> a vlan traffic can be received on such device as well.
> This patch propagates the promiscuous mode setting to lower device
> so that lower device may receive all packets that macvlan may
> be interested in.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>

Applied, thanks Vlad.
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