Re: xennet input processing and mac filtering

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Brian Buhrow <buhrow%nfbcal.org@localhost> writes:

> A quick check with tcpdump on a domu machine running with xennet(4), while sending data to
> another domu machine on the same bridge, shows the domu doesn't receive packets for the MAC
> addresses it doesn't own.  That could either be because the bridge code blocks output to the
> watching domu's virtual port or because the backend sender on the specific domu is blocking
> such traffic.  I didn't look, but perhaps there is code in the xennet(4) driver  to tell the
> backend which MAC addresses it should listen for.

I think it's because the bridge is sending things to the right place.
You might try clearing the bridge's mac table and checking if the first
packet shows up multiple places.