Re: Linux Virtual Network Device

[Matthias-Christian Ott <matthias.christian@tiscali.de>]

William Stearns wrote:

> Good afternoon, Matthias-Christian,
>     (This isn't a linux kernel development issue; please do further 
> discussion on the uml-user mailing list only.)
>
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
>
>> I have the following the problem:
>> I have server which is connected to the internet via a gateway, on 
>> this server I want to run some uml machines. I want "equip" every uml 
>> machine with virtual network device (virX [e.g.; the name doesn't 
>> matter]). The virtual devices should be something like the "lo" 
>> device and their ip addresses shouldn't be used by the internet (I'm 
>> looking for something like 127.0.0.1). I want to give each uml 
>> machine a host name (e.g. xxx.myserver.mydomain.com), requests should 
>> be masqueraded (by bind or dnsmasq?) by their dns name 
>> (1.myserver.mydomain.com is 127.0.0.2 [vir0]). How to do this?
>>
>> Links or Tutorials are welcome (I just found some outdated stuff on 
>> the uml website)
>
>
>     Please give these a try as a start.
>
> http://www.stearns.org/slartibartfast/uml-coop.current.html#networking
> http://www.stearns.org/slartibartfast/rc.uml-net
>
>     Cheers,
>     - Bill
>
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> William Stearns (wstearns@pobox.com).  Mason, Buildkernel, freedups, p0f,
> rsync-backup, ssh-keyinstall, dns-check, more at:   
> http://www.stearns.org
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>
Thanks that was exactly what I'm looking for. But howto get dns 
masquerading working with bind?

Matthias-Christian Ott