This function can be called at any time to get the current status of a
guest's network device rx-filter. In particular it is useful to call
after libvirt recieves a NIC_RX_FILTER_CHANGED event - this event only
tells you that something has changed in the rx-filter, the details are
retrieved with the query-rx-filter monitor command (only available in
the json monitor). The command sent to the qemu monitor looks like this:
{"execute":"query-rx-filter", "arguments": {"name":"net2"} }'
and the results will look something like this:
{
"return": [
{
"promiscuous": false,
"name": "net2",
"main-mac": "52:54:00:98:2d:e3",
"unicast": "normal",
"vlan": "normal",
"vlan-table": [
42,
0
],
"unicast-table": [
],
"multicast": "normal",
"multicast-overflow": false,
"unicast-overflow": false,
"multicast-table": [
"33:33:ff:98:2d:e3",
"01:80:c2:00:00:21",
"01:00:5e:00:00:fb",
"33:33:ff:98:2d:e2",
"01:00:5e:00:00:01",
"33:33:00:00:00:01"
],
"broadcast-allowed": false
}
],
"id": "libvirt-14"
}
This is all parsed from JSON into a virNetDevRxFilter object for
easier consumption. (unicast-table is usually empty, but is also an
array of mac addresses similar to multicast-table).
(NB: LIBNL_CFLAGS was added to tests/Makefile.am because virnetdev.h
now includes util/virnetlink.h, which includes netlink/msg.h when
appropriate. Without LIBNL_CFLAGS, gcc can't find that file (if
libnl/netlink isn't available, LIBNL_CFLAGS will be empty and
virnetlink.h won't try to include netlink/msg.h anyway).)
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