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Re: [Xen-devel] netfront and promiscuous/multicast packets

To: James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] netfront and promiscuous/multicast packets
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:49:00 +0100
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AIUI netfront sees network from an always promiscuous possibly switched
point of view, i.e. it should already receive all ethernet broadcast
and multicast packets.  Whether it is actually switched depends on the
network configuration in dom0 of course.

Samuel

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