Sorry,
   My attachment is wrong, please check the patch.

On 2013-1-9 0:00, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 15:40 +0000, jianhai luan wrote:
>> On 2013-1-8 21:42, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 13:13 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>>>> On 08.01.13 at 12:57, jianhai luan <jianhai.luan@oracle.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>      When Xen Dom0's network circumstance changed, DomU
>>>>> should be notified in some special condition. For
>>>>> example the below circumstance:
>>>>>      ping from Guest A to DomU:
>>>>>      Guest A --> eth0 - bond0 - xenbr0 --VIF(DOMU)
>>>>>                  eth1 /
>>>>>      when eth0 inactive, and eth1 active.
>>> How is eth0 failing? Are you unplugging it, un-enslaving it or
>>> taking
>>> some other sort of administrative action?
>> In my emulation environment, i unplug it or ifdown the interface,
> I expect these would behave rather different, since the affect of ifdown
> looks rather different to an unplug from the PoV of the switch.
>
> Is the ifdown case something which you are trying to solve or just what
> appeared to be a convenient test case? I'd be less inclined to worry
> about explict admin actions such as that.
>
> Unplugging the cable should cause:
>
>>> Doesn't this state change cause the switch to which eth0 and eth1
>>> are
>>> attached to forget the MAC tables associated with the eth0 port,
>>> meaning
>>> that subsequent traffic will be flooded until it learns that eth1 is
>>> the
>>> new port?
> Ian
>
>