[libvirt] New feature for libvirt

[Stefan Berger]

On 11/17/2011 02:04 AM, Amit Tewari wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to suggest a new feature development in libvirt network filter.
>
> Currently in libvirt network filter there is no support for ip 
> aliasing, but we want to add this feature so that libvirt learns 
> multiple ip address for a virtual machine.
>
Great. David Stevens's patches tries to address exactly this issue by 
learning from DHCP requests a VM is sending. I am currently morphing the 
network filtering subsystem to be able to cope with multiple IP 
addresses per interface (lists of items). I hope we will be able to 
provide this functionality within 0.9.8 timeframe...

    Stefan

> With this feature we will be able to get no-ip-spoofing filter works 
> on machine with ip aliasing.
>
> Currently if we apply no-ip-spoofing filter on a virtual machine with 
> ip aliasing then only one ip address is earned by libvirt ,due to this 
> other aliased ip address packets are not allowed to route out of the 
> machine.
>
> With this new feature libvirt network filter will work on machine with 
> multiple ip addresses on a interface(ip aliasing)
>
> Regards
>
> Amit Tewari
>
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