Re: [vserver] Networking questions

From: Siv <punumaa_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri 18 Jun 2010 - 18:12:31 BST
Message-ID: <AANLkTilGB9XGokCRVDmt4iDEfYnuG242iLKdpkRLbtPD@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Martin <inkubus@interalpha.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 09:52 -0700, Siv wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Few networking related questions. Hope you can help.
> >
> > 1. How is it possible to assign different IP addresses for host and
> > guest ? Basically am interested in the internals. Any pointer to doc
> > would be helpful.
> You use aliases to assign multiple IPs to the same device and then
> chbind to limit the processes within a vserver to only using particular
> IPs. Or at least, that's my understanding.
>

So does that mean there is no virtual interface concept ? Or is this the
virtual interface implementation in VServer?

>
> > 2. Can I configure guest and host be in different networks / subnets
> > (assuming I have multiple interfaces) ? I can't try this yet as I just
> > have one interface.
> You don't need separate interfaces, just something out of te interface
> that can route multiple networks. Your point is correct though as you
> can pick which interface the aliases are assigned to and thus separate
> using multiple interfaces.
>
> > 3. Does guest and host use different routing tables / VRFs ?
> I believe they use the same one.
>
> HTH
>
> Cheers,
> - Martin
>
>
>
Received on Fri Jun 18 18:13:24 2010

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