Samuel, Good observation. There's a known bug which prevents all all multicast packets to be passed to VNICs in promiscuous mode. This is not IPv6 specific BTW. It will be fixed in the crossbow gate as part of my MAC layer changes, and David is working on a fix for the Xen gate. If you could file a bug to make sure it's tracked properly that would be great.
Thanks, Nicolas. On Aug 14, 2007, at 7:56 PM, Ying wrote: > Snooping on a VNIC with ipv6 unplumbed , one will not see any ipv6 > NS/NA packets while ipv6 is being plumbed up on another VNIC with > the same physical NIC . You can snoop this traffic after the VNIC > has been plumbed up. This is because ipv6 NS/NA are multicast . > Even with ipv6 plumbed up , there are still some traffic hidden > from snoop , like dhcpv6 solicit message, which are usually sent > to multicast address ff02::1:2 . > If one is using raw endpoint( datalink layer) on a VNIC , > similar problem will happen. On a physical NIC , all multicast are > received . On a VNIC , the multicast packets are discarded. > Shouldn't all multicast packets be delivered to the VNIC while > the VNIC is in promiscous mode , or a raw endpoint has been opened > on the VNIC? > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > crossbow-discuss mailing list > crossbow-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/crossbow-discuss -- Nicolas Droux - Solaris Core OS - Sun Microsystems, Inc. droux at sun.com - http://blogs.sun.com/droux
