Re: [Qemu-devel] tun/tap networking

[Paul Brook]

On Saturday 01 October 2005 14:07, Jim C. Brown wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 01:30:06PM +0200, Oliver Gerlich wrote:
> > That means it would work if the host NIC is connected to a switch? Then
> > the switch would send packets from the guest which are meant for the
> > host back to the host NIC and everything's fine! Or did I misunderstand
> > that now?
>
> If the switch sends packets from the host NIC back to itself, I believe
> that would work.

A switch will not send a packet back where it came from. That would be a sure 
way to introduce infinite forwarding loops.

Paul