Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 34/35] Add the Xen virtual network device driver.

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Tue May 09 2006 - 09:00:50 EST


Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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