netdev - Re: How to use macvtap/macvlan correctly

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Message-ID: <20111002194616.GM14562@arachsys.com>
Date:	Sun, 2 Oct 2011 20:46:17 +0100
From:	Chris Webb <chris@...chsys.com>
To:	qemu-devel@...gnu.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to use macvtap/macvlan correctly

Chris Webb <chris@...chsys.com> writes:

> I'm trying to get bridge-mode communication between a macvtap and a host
> macvlan working correctly, but I think I must be doing something wrong as
> the host macvlan and guest macvtap apparently can't communicate. I'm aware
> that the underlying eth0 interface can't communicate with the macvtap, but I
> thought that creating a host macvlan device and configuring that was the
> standard work-around?

This turns out to be a bug in the kernel I'm using, 3.0.4, fixed by this
patch:

  http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/115273/

Cheers,

Chris.
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