RE: [PATCH][RFC] net/bridge: add basic VEPA support

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The patch from Eric Biederman to allow macvlan to bridge between
its slave ports is at

http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2009/3/9/5125774

Looking through the discussions here, it does not seem as if a decision
was made to integrate those patches, because they would make the
macvlan
interface behave too much like a bridge. Also, it seems as if there was
still a problem with doing multicast/broadcast delivery when enabling
local VM-to-VM communication. Is that solved by now?

Also, is there a solution, or plans for a solution, to address macvtap
interfaces that are set to 'promiscuous' mode?  It would seem fairly easy to
support this for interfaces that are simply trying to listen to the port
(e.g. Wireshark).  If the port was being used by something like a firewall
then the VEPA filtering doesn't work too well.

Paul