From: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
To: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Brian Braunstein <linuxkernel@bristyle.com>,
Shaun Jackman <sjackman@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: Multicast and receive filtering in TUN/TAP
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:20:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4876C357.3030708@qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807102223.40717.borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2008 schrieb Max Krasnyansky:
>>> Thing is, we are heading towards virtio.
>> Even for Windows ?
>
> Its possible:
> http://marc.info/?l=kvm&m=121075389300722&w=2
Nice.
btw Is there something similar for the display driver ? vmware has one.
>>> Unfortunately, virtio_net currently does not offer a method to register
> multicast addresses.
>> 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.
Max
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-11 2:20 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 [this message]
2008-07-11 7:01 ` Rusty Russell
2008-07-11 8:01 ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-07-11 8:01 ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-07-11 2:20 ` 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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