Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 15:21:01 -0800 (PST) From: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul) To: asmodai@wxs.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai) Cc: archie@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net if_ethersubr.c Message-ID: <20010208232101.8135E37C191@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20010208235146.E50305@daemon.ninth-circle.org> from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai at "Feb 8, 2001 11:51:46 pm"
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> -On [20010208 19:00], Archie Cobbs (archie@FreeBSD.org) wrote: > > Log: > > When we receive an incoming Ethernet frame that was unicast to a > > different hardware address, we should drop it (this should only > > happen in promiscuous mode). > > You mean: > > In promiscuous mode we don't drop it? Whilst in normal mode we drop the > erroneous unicast frame? > > The sentence is a bit ambiguous to my eyes, hence the call for > clarification. I'm hoping he means: "this should only happen if the IFF_PROMISC flag is set on the interface." Sounds like a sanity check to me -- ideally the driver should not let this happen -- but I agree, this explanation should be clearer. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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