From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Limpach Subject: Re: vif tx drops Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:41:38 +0100 Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20041014084138.GD17812@cl.cam.ac.uk> References: <1097723277.30147.96.camel@enigma.office.terrabox.com> <20041014083051.GC17812@cl.cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041014083051.GC17812@cl.cam.ac.uk> Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Brian Wolfe Cc: Keir Fraser , David Becker , Xen Devel Mailing List List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal > Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us > Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more > http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl