On Tuesday 09 June 2009, Fischer, Anna wrote: > I have tried using virtio and using the emulated QEMU virtual NICs. > It does not make a difference. It seems as if there is an overflow somewhere > when QEMU/virtio cannot cope with the network load any more, and then the > virtual interfaces don't seem to transmit anything anymore. It seems to > mostly work again when I shut down and start up the interfaces of the router > inside of the guest. I use two bridges (and VLANs) that pass packets between > sending/receiving guests and the routing guest. The set-up works fine for > simple ping and other communication that is low-throughput type traffic. Have you tried eliminating VLAN to simplify the setup? Does it change when the guests communicate over a -net socket interface with your router instead of the -net tap + bridge in the host? Arnd <>< -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html