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[Xen-users] arp broadcast lost during live migration

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Subject: [Xen-users] arp broadcast lost during live migration
From: Cristian Zamfir <zamf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:45:53 +0000
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I sent this message on the xen-devel initially, perhaps it is more appropriate on xen-users:

I think that the ARP broadcast sent by send_fake_arp in netfront.c gets lost during live migration even though it is called during migration in backend_changed(). Therefore, the outage is around 2s instead of tens of ms as expected.

I am able to see in tcpdump the ARP broadcast when domU boots, but not when it is live migrated.

I have also noticed a strange behaviour or arping. When I arping any host from domU it stops after sending and receiving the first probe.

Has anyone else experienced this problem?

I am using xen 3.0.3 and this is my network setup:

vif = ['mac=00:16:3E:F6:BB:01']
dhcp="off"
ip="130.209.253.132"
netmask="255.255.240.0"
gateway="130.209.240.48"
hostname="raoul"


Thank you.

Cristian

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