net: Support RX-ALL feature flag.

This flag requests that network devices pass all
received frames up the stack, even ones with errors
such as invalid FCS (frame check sum).  This will
allow sniffers to see bad packets and perhaps
give the user some idea how to fix the problem.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt b/Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt
index 7d2781230d30..4164f5c02e4b 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt
@@ -158,3 +158,10 @@ VLANs. This may be not useful, though.]
 This requests that the NIC append the Ethernet Frame Checksum (FCS)
 to the end of the skb data.  This allows sniffers and other tools to
 read the CRC recorded by the NIC on receipt of the packet.
+
+*  rx-all
+
+This requests that the NIC receive all possible frames, including errored
+frames (such as bad FCS, etc).  This can be helpful when sniffing a link with
+bad packets on it.  Some NICs may receive more packets if also put into normal
+PROMISC mdoe.