On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 05:25:59PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > O.K, back to the basic idea. Switch ports are just normal Linux > interfaces. > > How would you configure this with two e1000e put in a bridge? I want > multicast to be bridged between the two e1000e, but the host stack > should not see the packets. I am not sure i am following. I might be missing something. In your case you got two ethernet pci/pcie interfaces bridged through software. You can filter those if needed. In the case we are trying to cover, you got a hardware that offers that capability. Since not all switches are pcie based shouldn't we be able to allow this ?
Regards Ilias
