svn commit: r260224 - head/sys/netinet

[Yonghyeon PYUN]

On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 11:03:12AM +0000, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> Author: glebius
> Date: Fri Jan  3 11:03:12 2014
> New Revision: 260224
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/260224
> 
> Log:
>   Make failure of ifpromisc() a non-fatal error. This makes it possible to
>   run carp(4) on vtnet(4).
>   

vtnet(4) is the only device that doesn't correctly support
promiscuous mode?  I don't know details of vtnet(4) but it seems
it's not hard to mimic promiscuous mode.  I'm not sure why the
driver returns ENOTSUP to user land given that vtnet(4) defaults
to promiscuous mode for backwards compatibility.  It also does
not handle multicast filter configuration when VTNET_FLAG_CTRL_RX
flag is not set.  If vtnet(4) does not support multicast filter,
it shouldn't announce IFF_MULTICAST. I wonder how vtnet(4) can work
with carp(4) given that its multicast handling is ignored.