Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC v2 4/4] xen-netback: skip IPv4 and IPv6 interfaces

From: Ian Campbell
Date: Wed Feb 19 2014 - 04:47:38 EST


On Tue, 2014-02-18 at 12:16 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 6:36 AM, Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Also, the backend is not necessarily Dom0, you can connect two guests with
> > backend/frontend pairs.
>
> Can you elaborate a bit more on this type of setup?

The domain providing backend networking services is not necessarily
dom0, it might be a driver domain:
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Driver_Domain

I think from your PoV here it probably doesn't matter whether the driver
domain is dom0 or some other domain.

Ian.

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