Re: Question about David's blog entry for NetCONF 2006, Day 1

2006-09-22 Thread Brent Cook
On Thursday 21 September 2006 17:15, Rick Jones wrote: > I was reading David's blog entries on the netdev meeting in Japan, and > > have a question about this bit: > > Currently, things like Xen have to put the card into promiscuous > > mode, accepting all packets, which is quite inefficient. > > I

Question about David's blog entry for NetCONF 2006, Day 1

2006-09-21 Thread Rick Jones
I was reading David's blog entries on the netdev meeting in Japan, and have a question about this bit: Currently, things like Xen have to put the card into promiscuous mode, accepting all packets, which is quite inefficient. Is the inefficient bit meant for accepting all packets, or more broa