

> promiscuous mode when the number of multicast addresses is over than > With this patch, the ixgbevf driver automatically enable multicast > mode is enabled the VF can receive all multicast packets. > enable/disable multicast promiscuous mode in VF. > This patch introduces the new mbox API, IXGBE_VF_SET_MC_PROMISC, to > It is good to have a functionality to enable multicast promiscuous > The easy way to solve this is enabling multicast promiscuous mode. > We couldn't assign over 30 IPv6 addresses to a single VF interface.

> IPv6 requires the multicast MAC address for each IP address to handle > for the large scale server with SR-IOV feature. > The limitation of the number of multicast address for VF is not enough > On Fri, at 11:37 +0000, Hiroshi Shimamoto wrote: > Subject: Re: ixgbe, ixgbevf: Add new mbox API to enable MC promiscuous mode

Subject: Re: ixgbe, ixgbevf: Add new mbox API to enable MC promiscuous modeĭate: Mon, 06:59:58 +0000 Re: ixgbe, ixgbevf: Add new mbox API to enable MC promiscuous mode - Hiroshi Shimamoto Netdev Archive on help / color / mirror / Atom feed From: Hiroshi Shimamoto
