From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759179AbZCSGUa (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:20:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755185AbZCSGUS (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:20:18 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:47378 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755180AbZCSGUQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:20:16 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:20:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20090318.232003.30974750.davem@davemloft.net> To: jpirko@redhat.com Cc: shemminger@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, fubar@us.ibm.com, bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: allow bond in mode balance-alb to work properly in bridge From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20090316111127.GB3484@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com> References: <20090314094911.GA3455@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com> <20090315161217.7fa2c3a7@nehalam> <20090316111127.GB3484@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jiri Pirko Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:11:28 +0100 > I can see two solutions. Either like my patch or somehow allow bridge to know > more MAC addressses per port (maybe netdev can be changed to know more then > one MAC address). > > Any thoughts? The netdev struct already supports having a list of multiple unicast MAC addresses, it can probably be used and inspected for this. I'll hold off on your patch until we make some more progress on this discussion.