On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 7:34 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim <j...@mojatatu.com> wrote: > From: Jamal Hadi Salim <j...@mojatatu.com> > > Often redirecting or mirroring requires that we set the dstMAC address > of the target device. While it is possible to pipe to a pedit action, > this patch obsoletes the need for that. This is a justified feature because > the dst MAC addresses rewrite is such a common use case.
Maybe, instead of allowing to set arbitrary MAC address, how about just allow setting to the MAC address of the target device? If so we only need a boolean flag for user-space. IOW, do we really need such flexibility?