On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:00:37PM +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote: > > Wow, very thorough research! Thanks for figuring this out! > > Thanks. It took me almost two days to figure this out and find a working > solution. Interesting debugging, though, as I learned quite a lot on > bridges and IPv6 DAD. > > > I'm leaving the country in 48 hours and may not be able to review this > > before I go. If anyone else wants to take a crack at it so it can go > > into this release, that would be wonderful. Otherwise I'll get to it as > > soon as I possibly can. > > Thanks. > > And I've found a solution for radvd: use the “IgnoreIfMissing” flag in > its config so that it continues running even if it find the interface > down on startup. > > BTW, I'm also hesitating to set the VIR_NETDEV_TAP_CREATE_PERSIST flag > automatically when no tapfd pointer is given, as currently, with my > patch, if you call virNetDevTapCreate() without > VIR_NETDEV_TAP_CREATE_PERSIST and without tapfd argument, the device > will disappear immediately. I don't know if implicitly setting a flag is > a good idea, though. There are only a few callers of this API, so I think it is reasonable to just update the callers as needed, rather than implicitly setting the flag. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list