Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> wrote:
quoted text
> 
>> I've had a look at the dev.c file in 2.6.27, and my very naive guess
>> is that as the handle_bridge() call is before the handle_macvlan() call,
>> because the incoming real physical interface is not part of the bridge,
>> the incoming unicast packet is being dropped, before the macvlan code
>> gets a look at it.
> 
> Yes, that seems correct.

Would it be possible to implement promiscuous mode for macvlans by
simply keeping a separate list of macvlan devices in promiscuous
mode and sending all inbound packets to them?

This should make bridging work, right?

Cheers,
-- 
Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/
Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html