Re: [PATCH] bonding: allow bond in mode balance-alb to workproperly in bridge

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Mar 19 2009 - 02:20:31 EST


From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@xxxxxxxxxx>
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.
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