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From: Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@amorsen.dk>
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 10:50:10 +0200
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	(Anna Fischer's message of "Fri\, 7 Aug 2009 21\:00\:54 +0000")
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Subject: Re: [Bridge] [evb] RE: [PATCH][RFC] net/bridge: add basic VEPA
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To: "Fischer, Anna" <anna.fischer@hp.com>
Cc: "arnd@arndb.de" <arnd@arndb.de>, Yaron Haviv <yaronh@voltaire.com>, "bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org" <bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org>, "virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org" <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>, "adobriyan@gmail.com" <adobriyan@gmail.com>, "Paul Congdon (UC Davis)" <ptcongdon@ucdavis.edu>, "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, "evb@yahoogroups.com" <evb@yahoogroups.com>, "davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>

"Fischer, Anna" <anna.fischer@hp.com> writes:

> If you do have a SRIOV NIC that supports VEPA, then I would think that
> you do not have QEMU or macvtap in the setup any more though. Simply
> because in that case the VM can directly access the VF on the physical
> device. That would be ideal.

I'm just trying to understand how this all works, so I'm probably asking
a stupid question:

Would a SRIOV NIC with VEPA support show up as multiple devices? I.e.
would I get e.g. eth0-eth7 for a NIC with support for 8 virtual
interfaces? Would they have different MAC addresses?


/Benny