From: Andreas Plesner Jacobsen <apj@mutt.dk>
To: Stephane Bakhos <nuitari@melchior.nuitari.net>
Cc: Michael Jinks <michael.jinks@gmail.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Trouble understanding net config options
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:48:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090715234803.GB2455@nerd.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090715231219.GZ2455@nerd.dk>
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 01:12:19AM +0200, Andreas Plesner Jacobsen wrote:
> >>
> >> I tried "fd=" instead of "name=", but that looks for a file descriptor
> >> instead of a network interface name, and I didn't even know that Linux
> >> had file descriptors for network interfaces let alone how to map them
> >> to a tap. Nothing under /dev looks promising.
> >
> > You need to add a vlan option to one of them, for example vlan=2
> > Otherwise kvm will bridge the interfaces together, and it's going to
> > create a packet storm.
>
> Not if the tap-interfaces are connected to different bridges.
I'm sorry, I misunderstood your point. You're right.
--
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-15 23:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-15 22:54 Trouble understanding net config options Michael Jinks
2009-07-15 23:05 ` Stephane Bakhos
2009-07-15 23:08 ` Michael Jinks
2009-07-15 23:12 ` Stephane Bakhos
2009-07-15 23:12 ` Andreas Plesner Jacobsen
2009-07-15 23:17 ` Michael Jinks
2009-07-15 23:24 ` Chris Webb
2009-07-15 23:41 ` Michael Jinks
2009-07-16 0:03 ` Charles Duffy
2009-07-15 23:48 ` Andreas Plesner Jacobsen [this message]
2009-07-15 23:07 ` Andreas Plesner Jacobsen
2009-07-15 23:22 ` Michael Jinks
2009-07-15 23:27 ` Stephane Bakhos
2009-07-15 23:35 ` Andreas Plesner Jacobsen
2009-07-15 23:42 ` Michael Jinks
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