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 01:12:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090715231219.GZ2455@nerd.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0907151904290.26916@anvil.nuitari.net>
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 07:05:48PM -0400, Stephane Bakhos 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.
--
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-15 23:20 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 [this message]
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
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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