From: Gionatan Danti <g.danti@assyoma.it>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Force mavtap interfaces up
Date: Mon, 02 May 2022 18:30:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <116c870676ecab331ec3c76aaec7bf0f@assyoma.it> (raw)
Dear list,
I would like to ask if, and how, it is possible to force a macvtap
interface up even when the underlying physical device has no link
(reporting NO-CARRIER).
From my understanding, I can do that via something as "ip link set
macvtap0 protodown off". And it works, indeed. However, if the
underlying physical device is plugged & unplugged again, the macvtap0
interface goes down with it; to restore it, I need to re-run the above
"protodown off" command.
Does a method exists to always force one or more macvtap interfaces up,
regardless the physical link status?
Full disclosure: I am trying to use macvtap rather than plain bridge for
a KVM host and I stumbled across the behavior described above. If the
physical interface is disconnected, the guests lose connection with each
other. With a classical bridge setup, disconnecting the physical
interface only interrupt communication with outer guest/hosts (but
internal traffic is preserved).
Regards.
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Danti Gionatan
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