Comments on: Some notes on macvlan/macvtap

By: Tom Davies

Tom Davies — Fri, 25 May 2018 09:32:50 +0000

In reply to waldner. Thanks :)) Also thanks for an excellent article! I can't find much documentation about macvlan and this is the only article i've seen about macvtap. So this is still the most recent article about these 'new' technologies. It also seems one of the best articles on virtual networking generally. Many thanks and regards from Tom :)

By: waldner

waldner — Thu, 24 May 2018 12:29:36 +0000

In reply to Tom Davies. Looks plausible. Thanks for sharing!

By: Tom Davies

Tom Davies — Wed, 23 May 2018 20:27:03 +0000

Hi :)
I read somewhere that wireless doesn't work because frames coming in are then found to have a 'wrong' mac address. The frames contain a mac address of the physical device but appear to have come in through the macvlan's mac address. This is seen as suspicious and the frame gets dropped.

I have no idea if i've understood that correctly or made it comprehensible. I had no understanding at all about networking until very recently and i may have gone backwards from there. The article might have been talking specifically about Wireless Access Points.

I hope this helps or is ignorable!
Regards from
Tom Davies

By: Johannes Ernst

Johannes Ernst — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 18:19:42 +0000

Thanks for documenting this, this is very useful.

By: waldner

waldner — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 16:04:53 +0000

In reply to Rami Rosen. Fixed, thanks.