Re: [PATCH 2/2] [e1000 VLAN] Disable vlan hw accel when promiscuous mode

From: Patrick McHardy <redacted>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:21:35 +0100

Do you really consider that a realistic choice? Who is going to
remove interfaces that are in use just to see traffic for other
VLANs? Sniffing specific VLANs can always be done on the VLAN
device itself.

Change the example to wanting to see traffic on another
physical switch.

How is this any different?

IMO its more a question of what we want promiscous mode to mean,
and I tend to agree with Joonwoo that it should receive all packets.

On what LAN?

When you select VLAN, you by definition are asking for non-VLAN
traffic to be elided.  It is like plugging the ethernet cable
into one switch or another.

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