From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Geetha Anandakrishnan <a.geetha@gmail.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Qn on vlan filtering for promiscuous ports VMXNET3 driver
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 16:30:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191001163026.0d6ff8a1@hermes.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJNW8upmrVDiYUFOMwK6RLtO2vK8h-HMczYg-uDeEZnM8s3JMQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 11:43:37 -0700
Geetha Anandakrishnan <a.geetha@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am experimenting DPDK with VMXNET3. I see that the vmxnet3 driver code
> does not set vlan filtering if port is in promiscuous mode.
> I modified the vmxnet3 code to skip the check for promiscuous port, code
> below. But it does not seem like filtering works with this change, when
> port is in prom. mode.
>
> Does the firmware not look at the vlan table if port is in promiscuous
> mode.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks!!
The idea behind promiscious mode is to get all packets.
It doesn't make sense to do vlan filtering in HW then.
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2019-10-01 18:43 Geetha Anandakrishnan
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