Laine Stump 40961978ee conf: new network bridge device attribute macTableManager ... The macTableManager attribute of a network's bridge subelement tells libvirt how the bridge's MAC address table (used to determine the egress port for packets) is managed. In the default mode, "kernel", management is left to the kernel, which usually determines entries in part by turning on promiscuous mode on all ports of the bridge, flooding packets to all ports when the correct destination is unknown, and adding/removing entries to the fdb as it sees incoming traffic from particular MAC addresses. In "libvirt" mode, libvirt turns off learning and flooding on all the bridge ports connected to guest domain interfaces, and adds/removes entries according to the MAC addresses in the domain interface configurations. A side effect of turning off learning and unicast_flood on the ports of a bridge is that (with Linux kernel 3.17 and newer), the kernel can automatically turn off promiscuous mode on one or more of the bridge's ports (usually only the one interface that is used to connect the bridge to the physical network). The result is better performance (because packets aren't being flooded to all ports, and can be dropped earlier when they are of no interest) and slightly better security (a guest can still send out packets with a spoofed source MAC address, but will only receive traffic intended for the guest interface's configured MAC address). The attribute looks like this in the configuration: <network> <name>test</name> <bridge name='br0' macTableManager='libvirt'/> ... This patch only adds the config knob, documentation, and test cases. The functionality behind this knob is added in later patches.		2014-12-08 14:41:37 -05:00
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8021Qbh-net.xml
bandwidth-network.xml	Remove the space before the slash in network XML	2013-08-28 08:05:46 +02:00
dhcp6host-routed-network.xml	Remove the space before the slash in network XML	2013-08-28 08:05:46 +02:00
direct-net.xml
empty-allow-ipv6.xml	Remove the space before the slash in network XML	2013-08-28 08:05:46 +02:00
host-bridge-net.xml
host-bridge-no-flood.xml	conf: new network bridge device attribute macTableManager	2014-12-08 14:41:37 -05:00
hostdev-pf.xml	network: support <driver name='vfio'/> in network definitions	2013-04-26 21:51:12 -04:00
hostdev.xml
isolated-network.xml	Remove the space before the slash in network XML	2013-08-28 08:05:46 +02:00
nat-network-dns-forward-plain.xml	network: permit upstream forwarding of unqualified DNS names	2013-08-14 09:46:22 -04:00
nat-network-dns-forwarders.xml	Add forwarder attribute to <dns/> element	2013-09-17 17:47:33 -06:00
nat-network-dns-hosts.xml	Remove the space before the slash in network XML	2013-08-28 08:05:46 +02:00
nat-network-dns-srv-record-minimal.xml	Remove the space before the slash in network XML	2013-08-28 08:05:46 +02:00
nat-network-dns-srv-record.xml	Remove the space before the slash in network XML	2013-08-28 08:05:46 +02:00
nat-network-dns-srv-records.xml	Test network update XML parsing	2013-08-28 08:05:46 +02:00
nat-network-dns-txt-record.xml	Remove the space before the slash in network XML	2013-08-28 08:05:46 +02:00
nat-network-explicit-flood.xml	conf: new network bridge device attribute macTableManager	2014-12-08 14:41:37 -05:00
nat-network-forward-nat-address.xml	Add '<nat>' element to '<forward>' network schemas	2013-09-05 13:45:49 +02:00
nat-network.xml	Remove the space before the slash in network XML	2013-08-28 08:05:46 +02:00
netboot-network.xml	Remove the space before the slash in network XML	2013-08-28 08:05:46 +02:00
netboot-proxy-network.xml	Remove the space before the slash in network XML	2013-08-28 08:05:46 +02:00
openvswitch-net.xml	Configure native vlan modes on Open vSwitch ports	2013-06-25 00:22:36 -04:00
passthrough-address-crash.xml	conf: net: Correctly switch how to format address fields	2014-08-21 15:55:07 +02:00
passthrough-pf.xml
routed-network.xml	Remove the space before the slash in network XML	2013-08-28 08:05:46 +02:00
vepa-net.xml	conf: add trustGuestRxFilters attribute to network and domain interface	2014-10-06 11:49:10 -04:00