On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 12:55 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: ... > > Mark pointed out to me offlist, that this filtering is a little too > restrictive because it also blocks multicast + broadcast packets. We > can fix that easily enough with an extra patch though, and a single > catch-all rule for multi/broad-cast packets. > > Daniel Hi, I have revisited this subject and was trying to find a scenario, where multi/broad-cast packets would be affected by this patch and failed so far. Since only the source mac address of a guest is filtered, I don't see how a multicast or broadcast destination mac address could be a problem.
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