Patrick McHardy wrote:
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
For the macvlan code do we need to do anything special if we transmit
to a mac we would normally receive? Another unicast mac of the same
nic for example.
That doesn't happen under normal circumstances. I don't believe
it would work.
Assuming you mean you want to send between two mac-vlans on the same physical
nic...
This can work if your mac-vlans are on different subnets and you are
routing between them (and if you have my send-to-self patch or have
another way to let a system send packets to itself).
A normal ethernet switch will NOT turn a packet around on the same
interface it was received, so that is why you must have them on different
subnets and have a router in between.
For sending directly to yourself, something like the 'veth' driver
is probably more useful.
For the macvlan hash you just use an upper byte. Is that just a
simple starting place, or do we not need a more complex hash.
It comes from the original code, I think it should be good enough.
Ahhh, I knew my hash was lame for some reason!
Ben
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