From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Jim C. Brown" <jma5@umd.edu>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] tun/tap networking
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 14:50:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200510011451.02757.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051001130712.GA28444@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org>
On Saturday 01 October 2005 14:07, Jim C. Brown wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 01:30:06PM +0200, Oliver Gerlich wrote:
> > That means it would work if the host NIC is connected to a switch? Then
> > the switch would send packets from the guest which are meant for the
> > host back to the host NIC and everything's fine! Or did I misunderstand
> > that now?
>
> If the switch sends packets from the host NIC back to itself, I believe
> that would work.
A switch will not send a packet back where it came from. That would be a sure
way to introduce infinite forwarding loops.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-01 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-30 22:13 [Qemu-devel] tun/tap networking Don Kitchen
2005-09-30 22:21 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2005-09-30 22:21 ` Paul Brook
2005-09-30 23:01 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-10-01 8:12 ` Jean-Christian de Rivaz
2005-10-01 13:12 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-10-01 20:24 ` Jean-Christian de Rivaz
2005-10-01 21:09 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-10-01 21:17 ` Jean-Christian de Rivaz
2005-10-01 20:47 ` [Qemu-devel] tun/tap networking: patch for existing tun Jean-Christian de Rivaz
2005-10-02 2:42 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2005-10-02 7:56 ` Jean-Christian de Rivaz
2005-10-02 10:24 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2005-10-02 16:53 ` Lars Munch
2005-10-02 17:50 ` Jean-Christian de Rivaz
2005-10-02 19:47 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-10-02 20:27 ` Jean-Christian de Rivaz
2005-10-02 18:45 ` Anthony Liguori
2005-10-02 19:39 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-10-02 20:23 ` Jean-Christian de Rivaz
2005-10-02 22:37 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-10-03 9:46 ` Jean-Christian de Rivaz
2005-10-03 12:04 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-10-03 13:10 ` Jean-Christian de Rivaz
2005-10-03 13:19 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2005-10-03 13:13 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2005-10-03 14:14 ` Jean-Christian de Rivaz
2005-10-03 13:07 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2005-10-03 14:00 ` Jean-Christian de Rivaz
2005-10-03 15:04 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-10-03 13:01 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2005-10-03 13:58 ` Jean-Christian de Rivaz
2005-10-03 15:06 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-10-03 12:54 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2005-10-03 15:14 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-10-03 18:29 ` Fabrice Bellard
2005-10-03 19:22 ` Christian MICHON
2005-10-03 20:29 ` Jean-Christian de Rivaz
2005-10-04 7:09 ` Christian MICHON
2005-10-04 7:56 ` Jean-Christian de Rivaz
2005-10-03 21:36 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-10-04 8:23 ` Matteo
2005-10-04 11:34 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-10-01 17:49 ` [Qemu-devel] tun/tap networking Henrik Nordstrom
2005-10-01 20:54 ` Jean-Christian de Rivaz
2005-10-01 11:30 ` Oliver Gerlich
2005-10-01 13:07 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-10-01 13:50 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2005-10-01 21:15 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-10-02 2:21 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2005-10-01 17:52 ` Henrik Nordstrom
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