Re: [Xen-users] Xen with 'Routing' scripts

[Roland Paterson-Jones <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nils Toedtmann wrote:

> > Bridging is not so nice cos it exposes ethernet to the (untrusted) dom-U's.
> >    
> Not really. In _all_ cases you want to do some [ip|arp|eb]tables stuff
> to filter traffic. Nowadays with CONFIG_BRIDGE_NETFILTER filtering and
> routing/bridging is almost independant. Whatever topology you take you
> can encapsulate the domUs.
>  
Can we ensure that dom-U is not sending ethernet packets with fake 
destination mac addresses if we're using bridging?
How do we prevent a dom-U filling up our LAN with bogus ethernet addresses?

I guess we want to restrict the dom-U to IP packets with IP/MAC pairs 
that match previous ARP results. Can ebtables in dom-0 filter this 
accurately?
> To sum it up: You are trying to set up a more complex scenario, several
> dom0s hosting different numbers of domU. But you do not want to reserve
> IP prefixes to dom0s. My strong recommendation: BRIDGING + fixed MAC/IP
> pairs + ebtables filtering those pairs. You may use dhcp if you do not
> want to configure each domU. The MAC/IP pairing could be algorithmical
> like IP=o1.o2.o3.o4 ==> MAC=FE:00:o1:o2:o3:o4 (this time in hex).
>  
Actually I have played with such an algorithmic MAC/IP pairing in a 
prototype. But then the aim was to specify the MAC address in the Xen 
config for the dom-U, let the dom-U use DHCP, and ensure that the DHCP 
mapped the MAC to the corresponding IP address, all in order that I knew 
the IP address of the dom-U up front (but let the dom-U use DHCP rather 
than static for more flexibility etc.).
Bridging is definitely easier to manage than routing. However, given 
that I'm paranoid about untrusted dom-U's, how can we prevent dom-U's 
from abusing the ethernet network?
Also, there will be more ARP'ing with bridging, since all the dom-U's 
will ARP independently (can we short-circuit ARP responses in dom-0?).
Thanks again for your detailed help.
Roland

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