There is a reference to the virtual port in the event so you can actually keep only one record MAC per port, I suppose the the impact would be the same if you do this to a macvtap device on top of an ethernet device. But granted - you could really load down the host.
Dirk On 08 Sep 2016, at 17:15, Andi Kleen <a...@firstfloor.org> wrote: > "D. Herrendoerfer" <d.herrendoer...@herrendoerfer.name> writes: >> >> I may be missing something here - I'm pretty sure there I am, but is >> there any conceptual >> >> reason why this should not be done this way ? > > What happens if someone floods the network with random mac addresses? > Sounds like an easy way to do a DoS attack against your host? > > -Andi
