Re: PR 166255 - disable promiscuous mode warning via sysctl

2016-05-09 Thread Eitan Adler
On 9 May 2016 at 08:16, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > @Eitan > The problem with adjusting this at syslog (or rsyslog)'s level is that you > effectively generate the message, then have to expand even more work to > actually suppress it, making your machine work twice for no reason. To be clear: I wasn

Re: PR 166255 - disable promiscuous mode warning via sysctl

2016-05-09 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 9 May 2016 at 15:56, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 9 May 2016 at 02:02, Nick Hibma wrote: > > Folks, > > > > In PR 166255 [1] it is suggested to allow disabling ‘promiscuous mode > enabled’ warnings. It adds a sysctl to allow toggling this behaviour. I > have a number of questions before I commit

Re: PR 166255 - disable promiscuous mode warning via sysctl

2016-05-09 Thread Eitan Adler
On 9 May 2016 at 02:02, Nick Hibma wrote: > Folks, > > In PR 166255 [1] it is suggested to allow disabling ‘promiscuous mode > enabled’ warnings. It adds a sysctl to allow toggling this behaviour. I have > a number of questions before I commit the patch: I don't any concern with a sysctl, but

PR 166255 - disable promiscuous mode warning via sysctl

2016-05-09 Thread Nick Hibma
Folks, In PR 166255 [1] it is suggested to allow disabling ‘promiscuous mode enabled’ warnings. It adds a sysctl to allow toggling this behaviour. I have a number of questions before I commit the patch: - are there any security related considerations wrt disabling this warning?