Macvtap passthrough mac address1/5/2023 ![]() ![]() List that came in the filter with TUNSETTXFILTER. In this implementation we make the macvlan address list same as the address Passing the vlan id's to lowerĭevice will mean going thru the whole list of vlans every time.ī) TUNSETVLAN with vlan id and flag to set/unset It will requireĪ) TUNSETVLANFILTER: This will entail we send the whole vlan bitmap filter There is a need for vlan filtering to complete the patch. I would like to cover both MAC and vlan filtering in this work. I used Michael's qemu-kvm patch for testing the changes with KVM I have looked at previous work and discussions on this for qemu-kvmīy Michael Tsirkin, Alex Williamson and Dragos Tatulea This patch basically passes the addresses got by TUNSETTXFILTER to macvlan I have also referred to the thread below where TUNSETTXFILTER was mentioned in This patch tries to remove the need for putting the lowerdev in promiscous mode. Promiscous mode as long as the guest filters are passed down to the lowerdev. There is a 1-1 mapping between macvtap device and physical nic or VF. PASSTHRU mode today sets the lowerdev in promiscous mode. I have hopefully CC'ed all concerned people. Its still a work in progress.īriefly tested for basic functionality. This patch is an attempt at providing address filtering support for macvtapĭevices in PASSTHRU mode. To: netdev +Cc: dragos.tatulea, arnd, mst, dwang2, benve, kaber, sri Tsirkin 0 siblings, 1 reply 27+ messages in thread Macvlan: MAC Address filtering support for passthru mode Netdev Archive on help / color / mirror / Atom feed * macvlan: MAC Address filtering support for passthru mode 22:35 Roopa Prabhu ![]()
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