Re: [CentOS-virt] Why are bridges required?

2014-06-04 Thread lee
Ilya Ponetayev writes: > You may create as many bridges as you want to have virtual interfaces, > each bridge consisting only of connection to single VM, and handle > traffic between bridges and between physical interfaces of host > through iptables/iproute. In that case, I`d prefer not to have

Re: [CentOS-virt] Why are bridges required?

2014-06-03 Thread krad
Hi Lee If you are to virtualize the network stack properly you need to do it all the way down to layer2. How do you connect multiple layer 2 devices together? Well a bridge, a switch being many bridges all in the one box. Hubs are not relevant here as there is no physical medium. As the llya said

Re: [CentOS-virt] Why are bridges required?

2014-06-02 Thread Ilya Ponetayev
You may create as many bridges as you want to have virtual interfaces, each bridge consisting only of connection to single VM, and handle traffic between bridges and between physical interfaces of host through iptables/iproute. IHMO bridging is the most proper and popular technique because it

[CentOS-virt] Why are bridges required?

2014-06-02 Thread lee
Hi, all the descriptions of networking setups with VMs I`m seeing involve bridges. The only use I see for bridges is when I actually want to be able to send network traffic to multiple arbitrary interfaces connected to the bridge. I do neither need, nor want bridges when I want to keep the VMs s