Re: networking oddities, present status ? changeset: 7145:71466686d026

[Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>]

Andrew Theurer wrote:
> On Friday 30 September 2005 13:10, Ted Kaczmarek wrote:
> 
>>What is the present status of networking? Also will assigning unique mac
>>addresses to individual bridges on a domO be supported?

I didn't see the parent post on this, and was working on exactly
the same question. Think there are still a few bugs out there,
especially with differing kernel configs (complex bridging,
some filtering, ipsec, tcp options, v6 support, etc). We'd like to beef
up some network test cases and then grind it out through all
the test frameworks. Yes on the latter question.

thanks,
Nivedita

> I have been experiencing some oddities as well.  Xen/bridge networking works 
> on some switches, but not on others.  Also if I have one host with a domU 

Which switches doesn't it work on, do you know?

> communicating to another host, an unrelated host (with xen) will sometimes 
> get "peth0: received packet with  own address as source address" error 
> messages.  I have to wonder if all these bridges on the xen equipped hosts 
> need unique MAC addresses (they all have fe:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff)