From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Limpach Subject: Re: [patch 4/5] xen: netback mac selection Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 00:56:42 +0000 Message-ID: <3d8eece20501311656425d4547@mail.gmail.com> References: Reply-To: Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Ian Pratt Cc: Jody Belka , xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:47:24 -0000, Ian Pratt wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 11:11:15PM -0000, Ian Pratt wrote: > > > Out of interest, why do you care about the backend's > > address? It doesn't > > > appear on any packets. Does this patch also pass new > > parameters into the > > > vif-bridge script? > > > > Because if the netback you're connecting to isn't in dom0, > > it's nice to > > actually be able to distingush the interfaces one from > > another, so that > > you know what to do with them *g* > > OK, though I guess my preferred way of doing this would be to allow > arbitrary parameters to be passed from the config file into the vif > script e.g. foo=bar baz=bar2 > > What do you think? I like the option of being able to specify different backend addresses. And as Jody mentioned, the information is readily available in a driver domain without any additional channels. christian ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl