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Re: [PATCH] efinet: add efinet_multicast_filter command


From: Andrei Borzenkov
Subject: Re: [PATCH] efinet: add efinet_multicast_filter command
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 09:08:28 +0300
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06.11.2015 21:47, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko пишет:
Le 6 nov. 2015 7:43 PM, "Andrei Borzenkov" <address@hidden> a écrit :

06.11.2015 02:47, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko пишет:

If we can't figure out which ones we need to filter out, then it's
unrealistic to expect our users to be able to configure. We need to go
with
multicast filter per default and switch to promiscuous only when we
actually need it: when we override mac address. You can add function to
go
to promiscuous mode to network interface structure


I'm afraid if we cannot trust firmware the only solution is to simply use
promiscuous mode. This is not as bad as it sounds, as with moder switches
we won't get significantly more traffic anyway unless someone floods
network with video broadcast, in which case grub is probably not the right
place to fix it.

Also firmware is free to implement filter using promiscuous mode, so it
may well be what we end up doing anyway.

And i386 did it all the time. I do not know how wide testing it received,
but nobody complained about problems due to promiscuous.

Josef's firmware apparently doesn't work with promiscuous. Or do you mean
some kind of hybrid mode when we set both promiscuous and filters?

I mean full promiscuous, not multicast promiscuous - EFI_SIMPLE_NETWORK_RECEIVE_PROMISCUOUS.




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