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From: Michael Goldish <mgoldish@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: kvm autotest, how to disable address cache
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:59:43 +0300
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On 04/08/2010 11:53 PM, Ryan Harper wrote:
> Is there any way to disable this?  I'm running a guest on -net user
> networking, no interaction with the host network, yet, during the test,
> I get tons of:
> 
> 15:50:48 DEBUG| (address cache) Adding cache entry: 00:1a:64:39:04:91 ---> 10.0.253.16
> 15:50:49 DEBUG| (address cache) Adding cache entry: e4:1f:13:2c:e5:04 ---> 10.0.253.132
> 
> many times for the same mapping.  If I'm not using tap networking on a
> public bridge, what's this address cache doing for me? And, how the heck
> do turn this off?
> 
> 

Currently that's not configurable.  It's there under the assumption that
it doesn't annoy anyone too much.  Now that I know you're annoyed by it
I'll send a patch to make it optional.  If you can't wait, feel free to
comment out the first paragraph in kvm_preprocessing.preprocess().