From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ryan Harper Subject: Re: Any suggestions on where I can find description of how the network bridging work Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 21:11:06 -0500 Message-ID: <20101005021106.GO30086@us.ibm.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Henry Pepper Return-path: Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.150]:51326 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753244Ab0JECLL (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Oct 2010 22:11:11 -0400 Received: from d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.227]) by e32.co.us.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id o9522Ms0000972 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2010 20:02:22 -0600 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (d03av01.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.167]) by d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.1) with ESMTP id o952BA9C258920 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2010 20:11:10 -0600 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id o952B9XZ000768 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2010 20:11:10 -0600 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: * Henry Pepper [2010-10-04 16:15]: > Hi > > I'm trying to figure out how the network bridging work, focusing on: > - How to create a network where the DomU can get a dhcp address from > the central network. > - How to setup the domain network so that the DomU eth0 and eth1 goes > to the coresponding physical nics, without any chance of crosstalk > between eth0 and eth1 > - Is it possible to do a routing network in KVM as can be done in Xen? > > I appreciate any hint on documentation or insights. http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Networking -- Ryan Harper Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center IBM Corp., Austin, Tx ryanh@us.ibm.com