Messages in this thread | | | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 34/35] Add the Xen virtual network device driver. | Date | Tue, 09 May 2006 23:01:05 +1000 |
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Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > > 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?
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