From: Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <dennisml@conversis.de>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ghost traffic seen in all guest on a kvm hypervisor
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:45:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53300CBC.5020208@conversis.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <532F9111.2050507@conversis.de>
This is a Centos 6 System and I haven't set the aging explicitly but
from the output of showstp it seems the aging is set to a non-zero value
by default:
# brctl showstp vlanbr8
vlanbr8
bridge id 8000.00259035bc06
designated root 8000.00259035bc06
root port 0
path cost 0
max age 19.99
bridge max age 19.99
hello time 1.99
bridge hello time 1.99
forward delay 14.99
bridge forward delay 14.99
ageing time 299.95
hello timer 1.85
tcn timer 0.00
topology change timer 0.00
gc timer 15.85
hash elasticity 4
hash max 512
mc last member count 2
mc init query count 2
mc router 1
mc snooping 1
mc last member timer 0.99
mc membership timer 259.96
mc querier timer 254.96
mc query interval 124.98
mc response interval 9.99
mc init query interval 31.24
flags
The question though is that even if the bridge acted as a hub wouldn't
the guest drop the packets anyway since the MAC doesn't match? In other
words I would expect to see the packets on the interface with tcpdump
but not that the traffic gets counted as incoming traffic on the interface.
Regards,
Dennis
On 24.03.2014 08:04, Wolfgang Hennerbichler wrote:
> Make sure your bridge doesn't have an "bridge_maxage 0" configured or otherwhise your software-switch will behave like a hub.
>
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 02:57:37AM +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have a problem on a kvm hypervisor that I cannot explain. It
>> appears that some traffic shows up in the interface monitoring in
>> all of the guests on that hypervisor. We are not using broadcasts in
>> any way and I see peaks of 100mbit for several minutes on all of
>> these systems.
>>
>> Does anybody have an idea what could cause this?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dennis
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-24 10:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-24 1:57 Ghost traffic seen in all guest on a kvm hypervisor Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
2014-03-24 6:00 ` Remy Mudingay
2014-03-24 7:04 ` Wolfgang Hennerbichler
2014-03-24 10:34 ` Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
2014-03-24 10:45 ` Dennis Jacobfeuerborn [this message]
2014-03-24 11:32 ` Joel Gerber
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