netdev - Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC v2 4/4] xen-netback: skip IPv4 and IPv6 interfaces

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Date:	Wed, 19 Feb 2014 09:47:21 +0000
From:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com>
CC:	Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@...rix.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>, <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@...rix.com>,
	<xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC v2 4/4] xen-netback: skip IPv4 and IPv6
 interfaces

On Tue, 2014-02-18 at 12:16 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 6:36 AM, Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@...rix.com> wrote:
> > Also, the backend is not necessarily Dom0, you can connect two guests with
> > backend/frontend pairs.
> 
> Can you elaborate a bit more on this type of setup?

The domain providing backend networking services is not necessarily
dom0, it might be a driver domain:
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Driver_Domain

I think from your PoV here it probably doesn't matter whether the driver
domain is dom0 or some other domain.

Ian.

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