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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech•com>
To: Krzysztof Oledzki <olel@ans•pl>
Cc: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel•com>,
	davem@davemloft•net, jeff@garzik•org, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	jesse.brandeburg@intel•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] e1000: Secondary unicast address support
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:18:49 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <473A3EE9.4040700@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711140113400.15397@bizon.gios.gov.pl>

Krzysztof Oledzki wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Auke Kok wrote:
> 
>> From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash•net>
>>
>> Add support for configuring secondary unicast addresses. Unicast
>> addresses take precendece over multicast addresses when filling
>> the exact address filters to avoid going to promiscous mode.
>> When more unicast addresses are present than filter slots,
>> unicast filtering is disabled and all slots can be used for
>> multicast addresses.
> 
> Is there any easy way to use it for VRRP? It would be really great to 
> have two IP addresses on the same interface, each with a different hw 
> address.

mac-vlans should do this for you..with our without the driver patch.

Ben

> 
> Best regards,
> 
>                  Krzysztof Olędzki


-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech•com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-14  0:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-13 23:11 [PATCH 1/6] e1000e: update netstats traffic counters realtime Auke Kok
2007-11-13 23:11 ` [PATCH 2/6] e1000: " Auke Kok
2007-11-14  4:51   ` David Miller
2007-11-13 23:11 ` [PATCH 3/6] e1000: convert regtest macro's to functions Auke Kok
2007-11-14  4:52   ` David Miller
2007-11-13 23:11 ` [PATCH 4/6] e1000e: convert register test macros " Auke Kok
2007-11-14  4:54   ` David Miller
2007-11-13 23:11 ` [PATCH 5/6] e1000: Secondary unicast address support Auke Kok
2007-11-14  0:16   ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2007-11-14  0:18     ` Ben Greear [this message]
2007-11-14  0:48       ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2007-11-14  1:05         ` Ben Greear
2007-11-14  1:17           ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2007-11-14  4:55   ` David Miller
2007-11-13 23:11 ` [PATCH 6/6] e1000: fix schedule while atomic when called from mii-tool Auke Kok
2007-11-14  5:00   ` David Miller
2007-11-14  4:48 ` [PATCH 1/6] e1000e: update netstats traffic counters realtime David Miller

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