* Jesse Gross (je...@nicira.com) wrote: > On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Chris Wright <chr...@sous-sol.org> wrote: > > Subject: [PATCH] openvswitch: honour IFF_DONT_BRIDGE > > From: Chris Wright <chr...@sous-sol.org> > > > > Especially in the case of wireless, the netdev may not work properly. > > So honor IFF_DONT_BRIDGE. > > > > Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chr...@sous-sol.org> > > Thanks Chris. One issue is that OVS can potentially be used to do > more than just straight bridging. If you imagine it being used as a > bump in the wire to do filtering, for example, then it should still be > OK to use with wireless devices. Over time, we've either relaxed or > moved to userspace similar checks in order to provide maximum > flexibility - i.e. disabling LRO is something that we're now doing in > userspace because it's not always strictly necessary and userspace has > more information. Can you think of a way to do something similar > here?
As you can see, I haven't thought about it much (although I have been bit by it before) ;) Will ponder a bit... thanks, -chris _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
