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From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/7] net: Add support for capturing VLANs
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:10:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1239801006.4431.132.camel@blaa> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090414172955.15035.35614.stgit@mchn012c.ww002.siemens.net>

On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 19:29 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> This patch is derived from Tristan Gingold's patch. It adds a new VLAN
> client type that writes all traffic on the VLAN it is attached to into a
> pcap file. Such a file can then be analyzed offline with Wireshark or
> tcpdump.

Personally, I'd use a tap device and 'tcpdump -w' to do this.

Any particular reason to add support to qemu itself other than
convenience?

> Besides rebasing and some minor cleanups, the major differences to the
> original version are:
>  - support for enabling/disabling via the monitor (host_net_add/remove)
>  - always register dump client at the head of a VLAN queue
>    (instead of special handling for slirp)

Could you explain why you need this? 

I'd prefer if we didn't have to add qemu_new_vlan_head_client()

Cheers,
Mark.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-15 13:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-14 17:29 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Various small networking improvements Jan Kiszka
2009-04-14 17:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/7] net: Check device passed to host_net_remove Jan Kiszka
2009-04-15 13:09   ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-04-15 14:04     ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-04-14 17:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/7] net: Add VLAN client cleanup handler Jan Kiszka
2009-04-15 13:09   ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-04-15 13:40     ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-04-15 14:13       ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-04-15 17:15         ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-04-15 14:04     ` Jan Kiszka
2009-04-15 17:00       ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-04-15 17:03         ` Jan Kiszka
2009-04-14 17:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] net: Fix -net socket,listen Jan Kiszka
2009-04-15 13:09   ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-04-14 17:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] net: Prevent multiple slirp instances Jan Kiszka
2009-04-15 13:09   ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-04-14 17:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/7] net: Add support for capturing VLANs Jan Kiszka
2009-04-15 13:10   ` Mark McLoughlin [this message]
2009-04-15 14:09     ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-04-15 17:13       ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-04-15 17:16         ` Jan Kiszka
2009-04-14 17:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/7] monitor: Improve host_net_add Jan Kiszka
2009-04-15 13:09   ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-04-14 17:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/7] slirp: Handle DHCP requests for specific IP Jan Kiszka

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