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This patch is in response to: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798467 If a guest's tap device is created using the same MAC address the guest uses for its own network card (which connects to the tap device), the Linux kernel will log the following message and traffic will not pass: kernel: vnet9: received packet with own address as source address This patch disallows MAC addresses with a first byte of 0xFE, but only in the case that the MAC address is used for a guest interface that's connected by way of a standard tap device. (In other words, the validation is done at runtime at the same place the MAC address is modified for the tap device, rather than when mac address is parsed, the idea being that it is then we know for sure the address will be problematic.)
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>