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Hi there,
Running into an issue I think might be related to SRIOV not allowing mac addresses through to my bridge.
Dmesg shows me a lot of spoof events:
[29661.891939] igb 0000:1b:00.0: Spoof event(s) detected on VF 6
[29663.888911] igb 0000:1b:00.0: Spoof event(s) detected on VF 6
Hypervisor host has SRIOV enabled and is using Intel 82576 NIC's
Virtual Machine host has been configured with 2 x IOV NIC's
I want to be able to bridge the 2 NIC's together on the Virtual Machine but this doesn't work.
Only one side works at a time and the traffc never passes through the bridge
Could this be fixed with newer kernel or drivers?
I am using igbvf.ko version 2.0.1-k
Any help much appreciated
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This seems to be a popular topic of late, I think we had a similar question just last week.
You can't assign a VF to a bridge. By definition a bridge required the devices attached to it to be in promiscuous mode. A VF on the other hand sorts traffic based upon L2 filtering and cannot be placed into promiscuous mode, and therefore can't be used as a bridge.
Hope this helps.
- Patrick
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Patrick,
Thanks for the quick reply. I really appreciate it!!
So there is no way to make a VM with 2 SRIOV VF interfaces act as a bridge?
It works perfectly with Vswitches, but I really need the performance that SRIOV offers.
If there is a way that you can think of then I will try anything experimental etc.
I really need a VM running under KVM with high performance SRIOV bridged NIC's.
Looking to get as close to 10Gbps line speed as possible here
thanks
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