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From: Arnd Bergmann on 15 Feb 2010 10:50 On Sunday 14 February 2010, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > tun module already support RX filtering, however, > this is limited to filtering by mac address. > For virtio host, we also need filtering by vlan. > > Rather than adding this directly, it seems cleaner > to add generic socket filter support. Great idea, I was wondering how to do vlan filtering in macvtap with trunk mode. I guess it would be straightforward to do the same patch in macvtap, right? Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
From: David Miller on 17 Feb 2010 19:40
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst(a)redhat.com> Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:00:51 +0200 > tun module already support RX filtering, however, > this is limited to filtering by mac address. > For virtio host, we also need filtering by vlan. > > Rather than adding this directly, it seems cleaner > to add generic socket filter support. Both applied to net-next-2.6, thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ |