Re: vif tx drops

[Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 09:30:51AM +0100, Christian Limpach wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 10:07:57PM -0500, Brian Wolfe wrote:
> > I temporarilly solved this by converting the IP to hexidecimal and
> > setting the first 2 bytes of the mac to DE:AD. Unfortunately xen
> > increments the 3rd if you set the mac. We need a way to set the mac on
> > both ends of the vif device. 
> > 
> > Opinions?
> 
> Why don't you simply convert an IP address a.b.c.d into
> AA:a:00:b:c:d and let Xen do its thing on the 3rd byte?
> I even doubt that doing AA:00:a:b:c:d would be a problem
> unless you really have IP addresses a.b.c.d and a.(b^1).c.d

or actually a.b.c.d and (a^1).b.c.d...

> on the same switch...
> 
>     christian
> 
> 
> 
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