On Mon Mar 15 2021, Vladimir Oltean wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 01:52:08PM +0100, Kurt Kanzenbach wrote: >> + if (enable) >> + val &= ~HR_PTCFG_UUC_FLT; >> + else >> + val |= HR_PTCFG_UUC_FLT; > > What does 'unknown unicast filtering' mean/do, exactly? > The semantics of BR_FLOOD are on egress: all unicast packets with an > unknown destination that are received on ports from this bridging domain > can be flooded towards port X if that port has flooding enabled. > When I hear "filtering", I imagine an ingress setting, am I wrong?
It means that frames without matching fdb entries towards this port are discarded. There's also ingress filtering which works based on VLANs and is used already. Thanks, Kurt
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