Re: [PATCH][RFC] qemu:virtio-net: Use TUNSETTXFILTER for MAC filtering

2009-02-06 Thread Anthony Liguori
Alex Williamson wrote: Now that virtio-net knows what packets the guest wants to see, we can start moving the filtering down the stack. This patch adds an interface to set the software filter in the tap device. It's fairly limited, but we can back it up with our own filtering if it overflows.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RFC] qemu:virtio-net: Use TUNSETTXFILTER for MAC filtering

2009-02-06 Thread Paul Brook
On Friday 06 February 2009, Alex Williamson wrote: Now that virtio-net knows what packets the guest wants to see, we can start moving the filtering down the stack. This patch adds an interface to set the software filter in the tap device. It's fairly limited, but we can back it up with our

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RFC] qemu:virtio-net: Use TUNSETTXFILTER for MAC filtering

2009-02-06 Thread Alex Williamson
Hi Paul, On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 15:12 +, Paul Brook wrote: On Friday 06 February 2009, Alex Williamson wrote: Now that virtio-net knows what packets the guest wants to see, we can start moving the filtering down the stack. This patch adds an interface to set the software filter in the

[PATCH][RFC] qemu:virtio-net: Use TUNSETTXFILTER for MAC filtering

2009-02-05 Thread Alex Williamson
Now that virtio-net knows what packets the guest wants to see, we can start moving the filtering down the stack. This patch adds an interface to set the software filter in the tap device. It's fairly limited, but we can back it up with our own filtering if it overflows. Here are a couple issues