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From: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail•com>
To: Rayagond K <rayagond@vayavyalabs•com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>, netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how to test multipe unicast MAC address
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 07:57:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5162DAF1.8060903@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1365430604.3887.8.camel@edumazet-glaptop>

On 04/08/2013 07:16 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 12:38 +0530, Rayagond K wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> How to assign multiple unicast MAC address to single interface ?
>> How to test multiple unicast MAC address filtering ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>
> Standard way would be to use macvlan
>
> ip link add link eth0 name foo02 addr 44:44:44:44:00:02 type macvlan
> ip link add link eth0 name foo03 addr 44:44:44:44:00:03 type macvlan
>

Or if you have a recent version of net-next you can add them directly
without using macvlan,

# bridge fdb add 44:44:44:44:00:02 dev eth0 self

But you'll need to wait a bit before that gets in a stable release.

-- 
John Fastabend         Intel Corporation

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-08 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-08  7:08 how to test multipe unicast MAC address Rayagond K
2013-04-08 14:16 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-04-08 14:57   ` John Fastabend [this message]
2013-04-08 18:13   ` Rayagond K
2013-04-08 20:28     ` John Fastabend

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