Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> Christian Affolter wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>>
>>> I build and use vservers where the guests need to cooperate with each
>>> other. That is, a system with with guests running Postfix,
>>> PostgreSQL, or Apache ( multiple guests as they are mod_perl driven
>>> ) and they all need to communicate with each other. So I want to
>>> build a Virtual LAN ( different from my take on a VLAN ) with virtual
>>> NICs.
>>>
>>> Basically the traffic never hits the physical LAN/WAN.
>>>
>>> That make sense? IS it possible? If so what what should I be
>>> looking for in my research?
>> Yes it is possible, with the dummy net interface. You'll have to
>> enable the dummy net driver support (CONFIG_DUMMY=y) in your kernel.
>
> Thanks Chris. Is there a way test for this? I could ask Daniel if it
> got set in the Fedora Core 5 RPMs he built but that would be _really_
> lazy. :-)
ifconfig dummy0 <IP address>...
But yes, it is enabled in Fedora's kernels.
-- Daniel Hokka Zakrisson GPG id: 06723412 GPG fingerprint: A455 4DF3 990A 431F FECA 7947 6136 DDA2 0672 3412 _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserverReceived on Wed Nov 29 05:30:13 2006