On Wed, 13.08.14 18:53, Marcel Holtmann ([email protected]) wrote: > > Hi Lennart, > > >> There seems to be no way in systemd-networkd to put a link in > >> Promiscuous mode. This is needed to make macvlan work correctly > >> (Otherwise it receives no traffic with its mac address as the > >> destination). If I am not mistaken this could be a boolean in *.link > >> files. > > > > Sounds useful. Added to the todo list. > > actually this sounds like a design mistake. If macvlan requires the network > interface in promiscuous mode, then it should do that internally. > > Inside the kernel the promiscuous mode is actually reference counted. This > can for example be utilized from packet(7) sockets. That way you do not > accidentally leave a device in promiscuous mode if all users are gone. > > So why not fix macvlan to put the parent into promiscuous mode.
Makes sense. Removed the thing from the TODO list again... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
