Re: [PATCH v11 13/17] Add mp(mediate passthru) device.

Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-28T15:18:44Z

On Tuesday 28 September 2010, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 04:39:59PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > Can you be more specific what the problem is? Do you think
> > it breaks when a guest sends VLAN tagged frames or when macvtap
> > is connected to a VLAN interface that adds another tag (or
> > only the combination)?
>
> I expect the protocol value to be wrong when guest sends vlan tagged
> frames as 802.1q frames have a different format.

Ok, I see. Would that be fixed by using eth_type_trans()? I don't
see any code in there that tries to deal with the VLAN tag, so
do we have the same problem in the tun/tap driver?

Also, I wonder how we handle the case where both the guest and
the host do VLAN tagging. Does the host transparently override
the guest tag, or does it add a nested tag? More importantly,
what should it do?

Arnd