Sorry for the gibberish I misread the code. Please ignore this mail. Best regards
Benoît >Le Tuesday 16 Jul 2013 à 13:36:49 (+0200), Benoît Canet a écrit : > > Hello, > > I want to implement an alternative mac address setting to allow a guest using > virtio-net to change it's mac address by itself. > > The main use case is high availability setups where a slave machine take the > lead when the master is failing. (heartbeat) > > The thing that an alternate mac address setting would allow to do is to make > the switch _without_ requiring a gratuitous arp. > > The slave guest would simply take the master guest mac address and resume > operations. > > I initially though about implementing a list of alternate mac address but I > fear > that in this context lists are frowed upon. > > Do you have any advice on how to implement this feature ? > > Should I support old net device declaration ? > > What is the strict minimum changes that would need to be done to implement the > feature ? > > Best regards > > Benoît >
