Adrian Reyer wrote:
> Hi Gordon,
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:22:15PM +0100, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>> Is there a way to add a static route to a VM on loopback?
>
> You don't need to. As the guest has no network, it doens't need to
> route, either. The kernel has the network and does the routing.
> Do you experience any problems with this setup?
Yes I am seeing a problem with this setup.
Host A:
lo:192.168.0.1/32
eth0: 192.168.1.1/24
Host B:
lo:192.168.0.2/32
eth0: 192.168.1.2/24
When host A connects to 192.168.0.2, the connection looks like it came
from 192.168.1.1, rather than 192.168.0.1. I don't want my app on host B
binding on listening on 192.168.1.0/24 interface. I want the connection
to be going via the internal loopback only. I also want to keep the
iptables rules relatively sane and intuitive.
Normally, this would be implicit by the network scope, but since lo is
different and setting 192.168.0.1/24 on it would make the local host
respond on the entire range, I need an alternative solution that would
work more sensibly. Would using a dummy network device work for this? Or
is there a better way?
Gordan
Received on Fri Oct 15 08:03:45 2010