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2009 Mar 25
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[brussels-dev] displaying promiscuous state for a data link
...sume that if someone puts a regular link into promiscuous mode,
> then all of the regular VNICs (including those inside a zone) are in
> promiscuous mode.
No, they would not be in promiscuous mode. The VNIC''s would be in
promiscuous mode only if a DLPI application enables it using
dlpi_promiscon() with DL_PROMISC_PHYS flag. So, we do not register
VNIC''s promiscuous call back function if the NIC is put in promiscuous mode.
> But do VLANs appear as "in promiscuous mode" if the
> underlying interface is set that way? After all, listeners on the
> underlying int...