[fedora-virt] Span Port

Andrew Cathrow acathrow at redhat.com
Thu Jan 19 14:36:12 UTC 2012


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrea Modesto Rossi" <amrossi at linux.it>
> To: virt at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 6:41:28 AM
> Subject: [fedora-virt] Span Port
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> i need your help!
> 
> Scenario: 3 Virtual Machine, one of this is an IDS system, so is
> there a
> way to implement a span port (like those on bare-metal Cisco
> switches)
> using some "Virtual Network" feature?
> 
> Any Suggestons?
> 

Have a look at the code here, it's a "custom hook" from VDSM, the management agent in RHEV/oVirt that setups up a virtual mirror/span port for a virtual machine.

http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=vdsm.git;a=tree;f=vdsm_hooks/promisc;h=0a065ecbf85bee7177558875517771dd217f087c;hb=HEAD


> Thanks in advantage.
> 
> 
> My Server: Fedora 15, kernel i386 Linux server.virt-demo.it
> 2.6.41.9-1.fc15.i686.PAE, KVM

You'll do much better with 64bit if your hardware supports it.

> 
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