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author | Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> | 2008-02-26 20:52:05 -0500 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-02-26 20:52:05 -0500 |
commit | 3dbf8d56a2b7e0d738950daa16682e1e6dafb28b (patch) | |
tree | b56fa9c5e6ebacdfc8bcf1f0a84d65705b8e7556 /drivers/net | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/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 | |||
90 | This allows one to create virtual interfaces that map packets to | 90 | This allows one to create virtual interfaces that map packets to |
91 | or from specific MAC addresses to a particular interface. | 91 | or from specific MAC addresses to a particular interface. |
92 | 92 | ||
93 | Macvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the | ||
94 | iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-2.6.23 release: | ||
95 | |||
96 | "ip link add link <real dev> [ address MAC ] [ NAME ] type macvlan" | ||
97 | |||
93 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module | 98 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module |
94 | will be called macvlan. | 99 | will be called macvlan. |
95 | 100 | ||