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From: Mike Wray <mike.wray@hpl.hp.com>
Subject: Re: VIF setup
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:21:23 +0000
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To: Jody Belka <lists-xen@pimb.org>
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Jody Belka wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 08:40:08PM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Adam Sulmicki wrote:
>>
>>>       /sbin/ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 up
>>
>>Am I the only person who sees this as a tad odd? I can't escape thinking 
>>about a real bridge. Seems to me each eth or vif you add to a bridge 
>>should retain its IP and the bridge, basically being a device that does 
>>mac-layer routing, has no IP. 
> 
> 
> Actually, if you think about it, it makes complete sense. I really can't
> imagine a switch where each port has it's own IP address. The switch itself
> having an IP address on the other hand is perfectly reasonable, as in the
> case of a managed switch.
> 
> 
>>I guess this is an artifact of how it is implemented?
> 
> 
> I think it'd be wierd if it worked any other way, taking the above into account.
> 
> 
> J
> 

Check the linux bridge howto at

http://bridge.sourceforge.net/howto.html

This site also has pointers to other info.
There's really nothing special about the xen-br0 bridge, it's
just a normal linux bridge.

Mike


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