Re: vether(4)

[Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios%cs.uni-bonn.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 04:41:08PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On 22/04/2016 16:31, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> >> I'm hopeful that paired vether will allow me to run a DHCP server on one
> >> vether and a DHCP client on another and they talk to each other, as they
> >> don't over a bridge using either vether or tap(4).
> > 
> > why don't they?
> 
> Because the bridge doesn't multicast to member interfaces when packets
> originate locally - they are just send to the member interface output.
> 
> I sent a patch to tech-net early this morning to fix this, the subject
> is: bridge(4) - feedback local packets into ether_input()

Oh, this is probably why this DOMU can't IPv6 to its DOM0... 
I think I've opened a PR about this. Preliminary thanks!

Regards,
	-is