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| author | Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> | 2011-03-12 11:56:02 +0000 |
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| committer | Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> | 2011-04-13 19:15:50 -0700 |
| commit | 7c158399c21e4eabb33965a5fc689ebbd2ded4f6 (patch) | |
| tree | 825b471b130b2317444f90a1b410693180ee82bf | |
| parent | c326de88b8ac7ed1cd1027017ba6079dbe91be49 (diff) | |
| download | linux-7c158399c21e4eabb33965a5fc689ebbd2ded4f6.tar.bz2 | |
igb: Add anti-spoofing feature documentation
Add the documentation for the anti-spoofing feature in the HW.
Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/igb.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/igb.txt b/Documentation/networking/igb.txt index 98953c0d5342..9a2a037194a5 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/igb.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/igb.txt @@ -93,6 +93,19 @@ Additional Configurations REQUIREMENTS: MSI-X support is required for Multiqueue. If MSI-X is not found, the system will fallback to MSI or to Legacy interrupts. + MAC and VLAN anti-spoofing feature + ---------------------------------- + When a malicious driver attempts to send a spoofed packet, it is dropped by + the hardware and not transmitted. An interrupt is sent to the PF driver + notifying it of the spoof attempt. + + When a spoofed packet is detected the PF driver will send the following + message to the system log (displayed by the "dmesg" command): + + Spoof event(s) detected on VF(n) + + Where n=the VF that attempted to do the spoofing. + Support ======= |