Subject: Re: [PATCH] macvlan: Support creating macvlans from macvlans

From: Ben Greear <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:07:49 -0800

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Thanks.
> Would you be opposed to changes that made macvlan more robust.
> Such as refusing to come up if the macaddress is already in use.
> And perhaps denying the sending of packets with the wrong source
> mac?
>   
I wouldn't deny sending with wrong source mac..ethernet interfaces can 
do this,
and mac-vlan should look as much like ethernet is possible.

I'm all for making it harder to mis-configure things (like dup macs on 
single interface,
etc).

Thanks,
Ben

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