Re: Setting up eth-multiplexer in QEMU

[Sergiu Ivanov]

Hello,

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 05:02:51PM +0800, Da Zheng wrote:
> Da Zheng wrote:
>> I should test again whether they can work if the Ethernet card cannot  
>> be set in promiscuous mode.
>> I look into the code of eth-multiplexer again. It seems that  
>> eth-multiplexer should work even if the ethernet card cannot be set in  
>> promiscuous mode.
>>
> I just tested eth-multiplexer that doesn't set the ethernet card in the  
> promiscuous mode, and it can still work.
> In order to exclude the possibility that setting the ethernet card in  
> the promiscuous mode can cause the problem, you can remove the  
> corresponding code in eth-multiplexer.
> The code of setting the promiscuous mode is in  
> eth-multiplexer/ethernet.c. Remove the function call of set_promisc() in  
> ethernet_open() and ethernet_close().
> Maybe it can help.

Just out of curiosity, I did the same wget of which I was talking
about in the other mail, but with the whole
devnode-eth-multiplexer-pfinet set up. I mean, I did the following:

 # settrans -a /dev/eth0 devnode eth0
 # settrans -a multiplexer eth-multiplexer -i /dev/eth0
 # settrans -a /servers/socket/2 pfinet -i multiplexer/veth0 -a <ip>
  -g <ip> -m <mask>

In this case wget behaves exactly the same as it does in the case when
I don't run eth-multiplexer, the only difference being that things
happen somewhat slower.

This makes me suspect that eth-multiplexer is not the troublesome
component we are looking for. Do you share this opinion or do you
still insist on my trying to deprive eth-multiplexer of the
functionality of setting the device in promiscuous mode?

Regards,
scolobb