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| author | Patrick McHardy | 2008-02-26 17:52:05 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller | 2008-02-26 17:52:05 -0800 |
| commit | 3dbf8d56a2b7e0d738950daa16682e1e6dafb28b (patch) | |
| tree | b56fa9c5e6ebacdfc8bcf1f0a84d65705b8e7556 | |
| parent | 3ab2273175bd59616b6e85c0f88b154e8bd97413 (diff) | |
[MACVLAN]: Update Kconfig to refer to iproute
Since the macvlan release I had at least 5 users asking how to configure
it since the old userspace tool doesn't work with the version in the
kernel. Add a pointer to the Kconfig help.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/Kconfig | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig index f337800076c0..a20e72f5ad28 100644 --- a/drivers/net/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig @@ -90,6 +90,11 @@ config MACVLAN This allows one to create virtual interfaces that map packets to or from specific MAC addresses to a particular interface. + Macvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the + iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-2.6.23 release: + + "ip link add link <real dev> [ address MAC ] [ NAME ] type macvlan" + To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called macvlan. |