cxgbe netmap promiscuous mode?

Navdeep Parhar nparhar at gmail.com
Fri Mar 24 16:44:14 UTC 2017


On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 6:40 AM, Joe Jones <joe at stream-technologies.com> wrote:
> Hello Navdeep,
>
> ...
>
> We were using our own MACs, we can fix the problem by using the mac from the
> vcxl interface. Should we not be able to capture all traffic on the
> interface regardless of what destination MAC it has.

You should, but you'll need to put vcxl<n> in promiscous mode for
that.  The command that you posted had cxl<n> in promiscuous mode.  As
I said earlier they share the wire but operate as independent network
interfaces otherwise.

Regards,
Navdeep


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