From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
Brian Braunstein <linuxkernel@bristyle.com>,
Shaun Jackman <sjackman@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Multicast and receive filtering in TUN/TAP
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:01:38 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807111701.39070.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4876C357.3030708@qualcomm.com>
On Friday 11 July 2008 12:20:07 Max Krasnyansky wrote:
> >> I haven't looked at the virtio stuff much, I was assuming that the host
> >> side of it is still the TUN driver. Is it not ?
> >
> > Yes, the host side is still tun/tap. The problem is that qemu doesnt know
> > which multicast addresses are used inside the guest.
>
> Ah, now I see what you meant by virtio_net does not do multicast. I guess
> it should trivial to add. Rusty will clarify it I guess.
Yes, it could certainly be added; that's what feature bits are for :)
Cheers,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-11 7:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-09 22:58 Multicast and receive filtering in TUN/TAP Max Krasnyansky
2008-07-10 8:29 ` Christian Borntraeger
2008-07-10 16:57 ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-07-10 20:23 ` Christian Borntraeger
2008-07-11 2:20 ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-07-11 2:20 ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-07-11 7:01 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2008-07-11 8:01 ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-07-11 8:01 ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-07-10 20:23 ` Christian Borntraeger
2008-07-10 16:57 ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-07-10 8:29 ` Christian Borntraeger
2008-07-10 21:38 ` Shaun Jackman
2008-07-10 21:38 ` Shaun Jackman
2008-07-11 2:32 ` Brian Braunstein
2008-07-11 3:05 ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-07-11 3:05 ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-07-11 3:01 ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-07-11 3:01 ` Max Krasnyansky
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2008-07-09 22:58 Max Krasnyansky
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