Robert Watson writes:
> > You should go promiscuous to multicast. If the card doesn't support
> > that, you should go fully promiscuous and drop unicasts that aren't
> > to you. (Make sure you don't block packets that bpf is going to
> > want to see).
>
> Also, if you want bridging support, you have to bridge before doing the
> filtering.
>
> Really, the filtering on ``appropriateness'' should only occur when the
> packet is about to enter ether_input().
>
> Speaking of which, I'd really like to see bridge support getting added to
> all new NIC drivers from now on. However, the current bridge interface
> leaves something to be desired...
I'm working on fixing this.. see discussion on freebsd-net.
-Archie
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