* [email protected] [2009-06-11 19:22:18] > 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?
6738714 dme. -- David Edmondson, Sun Microsystems, http://dme.org _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
