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xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 34/35] Add the Xen virtual network device dri
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Christian.Limpach@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Christian Limpach) |
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Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 34/35] Add the Xen virtual network device driver. |
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Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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Tue, 09 May 2006 23:01:05 +1000 |
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Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> There's at least two reasons why having it in the driver is preferable:
> - synchronizing sending the fake ARP request with when the device is
> operational -- you really want to make this well synchronized to keep
> unreachability as short as possible, especially when doing live
> migration
> - anybody but the guest might not know (all) the MAC addresses for which
> to send a fake ARP request
Sure. However, what's there to stop you from doing this in user-space
inside the guest?
Cheers,
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