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authorPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>2008-02-26 17:52:05 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-02-26 17:52:05 -0800
commit3dbf8d56a2b7e0d738950daa16682e1e6dafb28b (patch)
treeb56fa9c5e6ebacdfc8bcf1f0a84d65705b8e7556
parent3ab2273175bd59616b6e85c0f88b154e8bd97413 (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/Kconfig5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
index f337800076c..a20e72f5ad2 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.