From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: xemul@openvz.org
Cc: shemminger@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bridge: request for the via_phys_dev feature discussion
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:30:28 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100226.043028.245172342.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B7D30B8.2050400@openvz.org>
From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:21:12 +0300
> In simple situation containers users want to bridge their containers through
> veth device with the host eth0 adapter. But after one add his eth0 to bridge
> he need to
> a) reconfigure everything including IP addresses, routing tables and
> netfilter rules
> b) recreate connections that were bound to eth0
>
> That's OK if one setup the box from the scratch and adds eth0 to bridge from
> the very beginning, but for those who start using containers on pre-configured
> boxes or for those, who decided to switch to bridge+veth from some other
> virtual device (e.g. macvlan or venet device in OpenVZ) this becomes real pain.
>
> I don't insist you accept the patches Cyrill proposed, I don't even insist
> we rework them keeping the idea intact. I just want to know your opinion about
> how to solve the above problem better.
Stephen, please work with Pavel on finding a solution for this issue
that works for you.
Thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-26 12:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-18 12:21 Bridge: request for the via_phys_dev feature discussion Pavel Emelyanov
2010-02-26 12:30 ` David Miller [this message]
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