[Xen-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 32/33] Add the Xen virtual network device driver.

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Haller <jhaller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> But sending ARPs is not the right thing if the guest is expecting
> to use IPv6 networking, in which case unsolicited neighbor
> advertisements are the right thing to do.  The driver just
> doesn't seem to be the right place to do this, as it doesn't/
> shouldn't need to know the difference between IPv4/IPv6.

In this case it doesn't really matter because AFAIK they're
trying to get switches to notice that the MAC has moved.  So
all you need is some packet that the switches can grok.

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