From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Webb Subject: Re: How to use macvtap/macvlan correctly Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 20:46:17 +0100 Message-ID: <20111002194616.GM14562@arachsys.com> References: <20100826114355.GA455@arachsys.com> <20110930084935.GC12879@arachsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from alpha.arachsys.com ([91.203.57.7]:55852 "EHLO alpha.arachsys.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753435Ab1JBTqS (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2011 15:46:18 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110930084935.GC12879@arachsys.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Chris Webb writes: > I'm trying to get bridge-mode communication between a macvtap and a host > macvlan working correctly, but I think I must be doing something wrong as > the host macvlan and guest macvtap apparently can't communicate. I'm aware > that the underlying eth0 interface can't communicate with the macvtap, but I > thought that creating a host macvlan device and configuring that was the > standard work-around? This turns out to be a bug in the kernel I'm using, 3.0.4, fixed by this patch: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/115273/ Cheers, Chris. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:50899) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RARzR-000843-N1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 02 Oct 2011 15:46:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RARzP-0003kT-Sr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 02 Oct 2011 15:46:21 -0400 Received: from alpha.arachsys.com ([91.203.57.7]:41238) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RARzP-0003kP-O1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 02 Oct 2011 15:46:19 -0400 Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 20:46:17 +0100 From: Chris Webb Message-ID: <20111002194616.GM14562@arachsys.com> References: <20100826114355.GA455@arachsys.com> <20110930084935.GC12879@arachsys.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110930084935.GC12879@arachsys.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] How to use macvtap/macvlan correctly List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Chris Webb writes: > I'm trying to get bridge-mode communication between a macvtap and a host > macvlan working correctly, but I think I must be doing something wrong as > the host macvlan and guest macvtap apparently can't communicate. I'm aware > that the underlying eth0 interface can't communicate with the macvtap, but I > thought that creating a host macvlan device and configuring that was the > standard work-around? This turns out to be a bug in the kernel I'm using, 3.0.4, fixed by this patch: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/115273/ Cheers, Chris.