On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 01:16 -0300, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote: > H i Yogi, I have read and rebased your patch against current trunk. I > have one doubt: I noticed that the tcpdump command you use to monitor > traffic is basically all traffic that goes to network routers > > /usr/sbin/tcpdump -npv ip6 -i any 'dst net ff02::2' > > However, the IPv4 implementation filters the traffic to the dhcp/bootp > port, 68. Therefore the ipv6 mapper captures more (non necessarily > useful) mappings than the ipv4 version. I made some brief research and > couldn't figure out how to do it. Do you think it's possible to refine > the tcpdump command to make it look only on the dhp request port (68)? > Hello Lucas, thanks for reviewing my patches for ipv6. Following tcpdump command will capture only the icmp6 packets and not all the ipv6 packets tcpdump -npv -i any icmp6 and 'dst net ff02::2' Since the patch uses ip6 link local address, we are looking for router solicitation messages. Thanks Yogi > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues > <lmr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > This patch enables ipv6 address support in kvm-autotest. > > The patch adds a new dictionary called "address6_cache" for ip6 address. > > Tcpdump is used to create this cache of link-local ipv6 address. > > > > Link-local ipv6 address is used because it eliminates to need to create > > complex configuration on both the host and the guest. > > > > The ipv6 address for a guest can be obtained by using the new function > > get_address6 in kvm_vm.py > > > > Signed-off-by: Yogananth Subramanian <anantyog@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > client/tests/kvm/kvm_preprocessing.py | 29 ++++++++++++++++++- > > client/tests/kvm/kvm_utils.py | 28 +++++++++++++++++++ > > client/tests/kvm/kvm_vm.py | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- > > 3 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Autotest mailing list > > Autotest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://test.kernel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/autotest > > > > > > > -- 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
