| From | Keir Fraser <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 32/33] Add the Xen virtual network device driver. | Date | Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:35:38 +0100 |
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On 18 Jul 2006, at 11:27, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Hmmm maybe it's me, but something bugs me if a NIC driver is going to > send IP level ARP packets... that just feels very very wrong and is a > blatant layering violation.... shouldn't the ifup/ifconfig scripts just > be fixed instead if this is critical behavior?
Maybe we should be faking this out from our hotplug scripts in the control VM, although triggering this from user space is probably a bit of a pain. Regardless, the function can be removed from the driver if it's too distasteful: it's only a performance 'hack' to get network traffic more quickly redirected when migrating a VM between physical hosts. Things won't break horribly if it's removed.
-- Keir
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