On 10/29/09 7:45 PM, "Frank M. Ramaekers" <framaek...@ailife.com> wrote:
> ETHERNET or IP? Advantages/disadvantages? For Linux, I tend to use ETHERNET, since they're likely to actually do more than IPv4. For others, or for backlevel systems that can't do layer 2, use IP. The ethernet ones tend to use a little more CPU since the ARP processing has to be done in each virtual machine vs having it suppressed in the IP type VSWITCH. If you do (or plan to do) IPv6, then you're going to want the layer 2 stuff.
