[libvirt] [PATCH v2] Add V6LOCAL nwfilter parameter.

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Fri Apr 4 08:49:12 UTC 2014


On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 01:51:20AM -0400, Brian Rak wrote:
> Currently, adding any sort of IPv6 nwfilter rules is rather difficult.
> There are no standard rules, and you end up doing a lot of things by
> hand.  This patch makes the $V6LOCAL variable available within nwfilter
> nules.  This is the generated from the interface's mac address using
> the modified EUI-64 format, which matches what the guest should be
> using.

See my previous response about this not being portable - guests are
not required to use the MAC address in link local addressing.

Regards,
Daniel
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