On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 11:43:37 -0700 Geetha Anandakrishnan <a.gee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All, > > I am experimenting DPDK with VMXNET3. I see that the vmxnet3 driver code > does not set vlan filtering if port is in promiscuous mode. > I modified the vmxnet3 code to skip the check for promiscuous port, code > below. But it does not seem like filtering works with this change, when > port is in prom. mode. > > Does the firmware not look at the vlan table if port is in promiscuous > mode. > > Any help is appreciated. > > Thanks!! The idea behind promiscious mode is to get all packets. It doesn't make sense to do vlan filtering in HW then.
