On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 03:35:52PM +0100, David Edmondson wrote: > * [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. >
what's the CR number for this RFE? ed _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
