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SubjectRe: [PATCH] act_mirred: do not drop packets when fails to mirror it
On 08/15/2012 08:35 PM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 17:37 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>> We drop packet unconditionally when we fail to mirror it. This is not intended
>> in some cases.
> Hi Jason,
> Did you actually notice the behavior you described or were you going by
> the XXX comment I had in the code?
>
> cheers,
> jamal
Hi Jamal:

I met it actually through the following steps:

- start a kvm guest with tap and make it to be an interface of the bridge
- mirror the ingress traffic of the bridge to the tap
- terminate the qemu process, the tap device is then removed
- all packet goes to bridge would be dropped, so the network of guests
in the same bridge would be broken

It's hard for the management to forcast the termination of the porcess
and clean the mirroring before. The realistic way is to remove the
mirroring after the termination of the process. So, if we drop the
packets when the mirred device (tap) is removed, in the gap between the
qemu termitnaion and disabling mirroring, the bridge ( and other VMs
using the it) would not recevie any packet.

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