Some switches do not allow an individual link (as defined in IEEE Std
802.3ad-2000 section 43.3.5) to work alone in a link aggregation group
as described in section 43.3.6. This is verified on Dell's
PowerConnect M6220, based on the Broadcom Strata XGS-IV chipset.
Set the LACP_STATE_AGGREGATABLE flag in the actor.state field to
announce link aggregation in the response LACPDU, which will have the
switch enable the link aggregation group and allow frames to pass.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[netdevice] Allow link layer to report broadcast/multicast packets via pull()
Allow the link layer to directly report whether or not a packet is
multicast or broadcast at the time of calling pull(), rather than
relying on heuristics to determine this at a later stage.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[netdevice] Pass both link-layer addresses in net_tx() and net_rx()
FCoE requires the use of fabric-provided MAC addresses, which breaks
the assumption that the net device's MAC address is implicitly the
source address for net_tx() and the (unicast) destination address for
net_rx().
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[build] Fix misaligned table entries when using gcc 4.5
Declarations without the accompanying __table_entry cause misalignment
of the table entries when using gcc 4.5. Fix by adding the
appropriate __table_entry macro or (where possible) by removing
unnecessary forward declarations.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Jaroszyński <p.jaroszynski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some switch configurations will refuse to enable our port unless we
can speak LACP to inform the switch that we are alive. Add a very
simple passive LACP implementation that is sufficient to convince at
least Linux's bonding driver (when tested using qemu attached to a tap
device enslaved to a bond device configured as "mode=802.3ad").
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Sven Ulland