* [email protected] [2009-06-11 15:10:34] > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:58 PM, David Edmondson<[email protected]> wrote: >> VNICs inside a domU don't work very well (in fact, they work fine, they >> just don't get to see any traffic from outside the domU) > > Why is that? > I had thought it would be somewhat similar to tun/tap + bridge in > Linux, where you can have tun/tap interfaces and bridges in dom0, > domU, or both, and they'd function correctly as expected.
It's not similar to Linux in this respect. The VNIC implementation would be better described as a non-learning switch (e.g. you assign ports to VMs and each port has an assigned MAC address). There's an RFE to fix this (allow the guest to add more unicast MAC addresses), but it's not yet completed. dme. -- David Edmondson, Sun Microsystems, http://dme.org _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
