Patrick McHardy wrote:
Right, but the current bridging code always uses promiscous mode
and its nice to avoid that if possible. Looking at the code, it
should be easy to avoid though by disabling learning (and thus
promisous mode) and adding unicast filters for all static fdb entries.
I am curious about why people are so hot to do away with promisc mode.
It seems to me
that in a modern switched environment, there should only very rarely be
unicast packets received
on an interface that does not want to receive them.
Could someone give a quick example of when I am wrong and promisc mode
would allow
a NIC to receive a significant number of packets not really destined for it?
Thanks,
Ben
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Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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