qemu pcap networking should now work
Juergen Lock
nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de
Thu Feb 4 21:17:55 UTC 2010
Hi!
jkim@ sent me an update to the pcap patches a few days ago that fixed
the packet delays (thanx!) and after we also found out the oversize
packets were caused by TSO on the em(4) interface here I now updated the
qemu and qemu-devel ports. This is the note I added to the pkg-message.s:
- The pcap code (-net nic... -net pcap,ifname=...) should work properly
now, with only one exception: Advanced features like TSO used on the host
interface can cause oversize packets which now do get truncated to avoid
confusing/panicing guests but of course still will cause retransmissions.
So if you see slow throughput and `pcap_send: packet size > ..., truncating'
messages on qemu's tty try disabling TSO etc on the host interface at least
while using pcap.
Enjoy, :)
Juergen
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