[vbox-dev] Internal Network - Switch Like Behavior
Knut St. Osmundsen
bird at sun.com
Fri Apr 24 10:11:42 GMT 2009
Antonio Augusto (Mancha) wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
> I'm working on a security project and would like to do some
> experiments with arp/dns poisoning, but to do so I'd need that the
> network the VMs are connected behaved like a switched one, that is:
> packets arrive only on the interface to where they are destined.
> I've tried looking on the code, specially in
> src/VBox/Devices/Network/DrvIntNet.cpp but I couldn't quite understand
> how the "receiving" works ...
> I see that there is a ringbuffer one the drvIntNetAsyncIoRun , but i
> don't get if this buffer is exclusive for each interface or if its the
> "network" buffer.
>
That ring buffer is exclusive for each interface. The ring is fed from
src/VBox/Devices/Network/SrvIntNetR0.cpp and that's also where the
"switch" code is.
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Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Vennlig hilsen,
Knut
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