From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>,
Andreas Plesner Jacobsen <apj@mutt.dk>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] net: add a flag to disable mac/vlan filtering
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:54:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201003091554.41830.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1268147394.14039.61.camel@8530w.home>
> > Can't this be achieved by just disabling the feature bits? IOW,
> >
> > ctrl_vq=0,ctrl_vlan=0?
>
> Michael still wants the guest to populate the MAC filter table so that
> we can use it to announce MACs on the bridge, especially after a
> migration.
We don't do that to start with. We only set gratuitous ARPs for the MAC
address of the emulated NIC. I'm not convinced anything else is useful.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-09 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-09 13:15 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] net: add a flag to disable mac/vlan filtering Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-09 14:43 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-09 15:09 ` Alex Williamson
2010-03-09 15:54 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2010-03-09 15:10 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-09 15:19 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2010-03-09 15:30 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-09 15:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-09 16:11 ` Alex Williamson
2010-03-09 16:18 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-09 16:56 ` Alex Williamson
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