On Saturday 01 October 2005 14:07, Jim C. Brown wrote: > On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 01:30:06PM +0200, Oliver Gerlich wrote: > > That means it would work if the host NIC is connected to a switch? Then > > the switch would send packets from the guest which are meant for the > > host back to the host NIC and everything's fine! Or did I misunderstand > > that now? > > If the switch sends packets from the host NIC back to itself, I believe > that would work.
A switch will not send a packet back where it came from. That would be a sure way to introduce infinite forwarding loops. Paul _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
