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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/5] virtio-net: Allow setting the MAC addre


From: Avi Kivity
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/5] virtio-net: Allow setting the MAC address via set_config
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:41:48 +0200
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Jamie Lokier wrote:
Dor Laor wrote:
What I meant is that if we allow the guest to change his mac address, it can deliberately
change it to other hosts/guests mac and thus create networking problems.
Although guest can always mangle packets, maybe it worth enforcing these macs for the guest.

Although it can create network problems, sometimes it is also wanted.

I think if you want to restrict the guests's ability to break the
network by changing its MAC, it would be appropriate to have an option
to completely lock down the MAC so the guest can't change its MAC at all.

I don't think locking down the MAC is very useful; the guest can still fake its IP address.

If the admin wants to lock down the guest, they should use netfilter (and live with the performance hit).

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