RE: [Xen-devel] peth0 received packet on own address

To:	"Kirk Allan" <kallan@xxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	RE: [Xen-devel] peth0 received packet on own address
From:	"Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Sat, 29 Apr 2006 17:44:03 +0100
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> I've been looking into an issue were in the message file I see: 
> Apr 28 11:43:10 kdell kernel: peth0: received packet with  
> own address as source address
> 
> Trying to match the time stamp in the message file to a 
> packet trace captured by ethereal, I found that the offending 
> packets are of the type
> ICMPv6 Multicast Listener Report Message v2, ICMPv6 Neighbor 
> Solicitation, or ICMPv6 Router Solicitation packets.  It 
> looks like these packets are sent every time a network 
> interface is brought up.  In this case it is when peth0 is 
> brought up from the network-bridge script since the MAC 
> address is fe:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff.  When a peth0 comes up, all 
> other machines with a peth0 up and running will receive the 
> packets and log the messages.
> 
> Is this an issue of concern?  

It's not of particular concern, but it would be nice to make them stop.

Is it the 'ip link set dev X up' line that causes the packet to be sent?
Does anyone know how to make them stop?

Thanks,
Ian

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