On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:52:40PM +0100, Neil Wilson wrote:
You need to be very careful not to hit a valid use case here.
RFC3069 provides for a mechanism whereby a supernet/subnet system is
setup to allow better use of available IPv4 address space. This is
becoming of increasing concern as IPv4 space exhausts.
To implement this you turn on Proxy ARP on a host and inject /32
routes advertised from other hosts into the routing table. The network
on the current host has a wide subnet mask (for example 10.0.0.0/8),
so that the host responds to ARPs for VM guests that are actually on a
completely different host.
The current network code only supports NAT, or a separate
routed subnet & thus currently require a non-clashing subnet.
Proxy ARP is a future RFE, so not a problem wrt this patchset
currently.
Daniel
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