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Date:      Fri, 24 Mar 2017 09:44:13 -0700
From:      Navdeep Parhar <nparhar@gmail.com>
To:        Joe Jones <joe@stream-technologies.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cxgbe netmap promiscuous mode?
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On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 6:40 AM, Joe Jones <joe@stream-technologies.com> wrote:
> Hello Navdeep,
>
> ...
>
> We were using our own MACs, we can fix the problem by using the mac from the
> vcxl interface. Should we not be able to capture all traffic on the
> interface regardless of what destination MAC it has.

You should, but you'll need to put vcxl<n> in promiscous mode for
that.  The command that you posted had cxl<n> in promiscuous mode.  As
I said earlier they share the wire but operate as independent network
interfaces otherwise.

Regards,
Navdeep



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