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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: dlaor@redhat.com, Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>,
	kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/5] virtio-net: Allow setting the MAC address via set_config
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:41:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090114164155.GA6431@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1231947298.7109.262.camel@lappy>

Alex Williamson wrote:
> > What if the guest will chose the host's mac?
> > Thinking about it, I don't think we should test that.
> > A concerned host mgmt app can add ebtables roles for such a case.
> > 
> > Maybe we can optionally allow/deny it?
> 
> What's the topology you're thinking of that the virtio-net MAC is also
> the host MAC?  I typically use a bridge with a tap device, so the
> virtio-net MAC is isolated from the host.  Thanks,

For example you might forward IPX packets to the guest and IP/ARP to
the host, using an ebtables rule to distinguish them.  From the
outside, it would look equivalent to a single host processing both IPX
and IP.

-- Jamie

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-14 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-13 21:23 [PATCH 1/5] virtio-net: Allow setting the MAC address via set_config Alex Williamson
2009-01-14 10:05 ` Dor Laor
2009-01-14 15:34   ` Alex Williamson
2009-01-14 16:41     ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2009-01-14 22:06       ` [Qemu-devel] " Dor Laor
2009-01-14 22:14         ` Paul Brook
2009-01-15 13:11           ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-15 13:12         ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-15 13:41           ` Avi Kivity
2009-01-18  9:37           ` Dor Laor
2009-01-18  9:42             ` Avi Kivity
2009-01-14 22:08       ` Dor Laor

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