Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 15:55:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG (Robert Watson) Cc: fenner@research.att.com (Bill Fenner), dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with SIOCADDMULTI, IFF_ALLMULTI and IFF_PROMISC Message-ID: <200004232255.PAA20746@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000423132326.3461C-100000@fledge.watson.org> from Robert Watson at "Apr 23, 2000 01:24:51 pm"
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Robert Watson writes: > > You should go promiscuous to multicast. If the card doesn't support > > that, you should go fully promiscuous and drop unicasts that aren't > > to you. (Make sure you don't block packets that bpf is going to > > want to see). > > Also, if you want bridging support, you have to bridge before doing the > filtering. > > Really, the filtering on ``appropriateness'' should only occur when the > packet is about to enter ether_input(). > > Speaking of which, I'd really like to see bridge support getting added to > all new NIC drivers from now on. However, the current bridge interface > leaves something to be desired... I'm working on fixing this.. see discussion on freebsd-net. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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