[Vserver] NFS recommendations?

2006-09-29 Thread Peter Sabaini
Hi, I need to implement some sort of network file system between my vservers. Fortunately, my requirements are quite flexible. Which of the following routes should I try (are they even possible)? My focus is on stability, robustness and security here. * NFS on hosts: export / mount network

Re: [Vserver] NFS recommendations?

2006-09-29 Thread Tim Mecking
Hi Peter, Peter Sabaini wrote: * NFS on hosts: export / mount network drives on hosts, have vservers use them * NFS on host and vservers: export on host, mount in vserver * NFS between vservers: export / mount in vservers * Userspace NFS? I usually use nfs-kernel-server, but maybe for

Re: [Vserver] NFS recommendations?

2006-09-29 Thread Laurent Vallar - aka Val
Hi, On Fri,Sep,29,2006, Tim Mecking wrote: Peter Sabaini wrote: * NFS on hosts: export / mount network drives on hosts, have vservers use them * NFS on host and vservers: export on host, mount in vserver * NFS between vservers: export / mount in vservers * Userspace NFS? I

Re: [Vserver] having a routing problem from guests

2006-09-29 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 07:35:09PM -0400, Chuck wrote: my 32 net guests cannot contact outside 39 net machines on our same network. they can contact other 39 net guests on the same host. conversely, the external 39 net machine cannot contact any 32 net ip on the vserver host or any guest.. I

Re: [Vserver] NFS recommendations?

2006-09-29 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 03:03:13PM +0200, Laurent Vallar - aka Val wrote: Hi, On Fri,Sep,29,2006, Tim Mecking wrote: Peter Sabaini wrote: * NFS on hosts: export / mount network drives on hosts, have vservers use them * NFS on host and vservers: export on host, mount in

Re: [Vserver] NFS recommendations?

2006-09-29 Thread Peter Sabaini
On Friday 29 September 2006 14:21, Tim Mecking wrote: Hi Peter, Peter Sabaini wrote: * NFS on hosts: export / mount network drives on hosts, have vservers use them * NFS on host and vservers: export on host, mount in vserver * NFS between vservers: export / mount in vservers * Userspace

Re: [Vserver] having a routing problem from guests

2006-09-29 Thread Chuck
On Friday 29 September 2006 09:54, Herbert Poetzl wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 07:35:09PM -0400, Chuck wrote: my 32 net guests cannot contact outside 39 net machines on our same network. they can contact other 39 net guests on the same host. conversely, the external 39 net machine cannot

Re: [Vserver] having a routing problem from guests

2006-09-29 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Taking this a step further I'm trying to do something similar and getting _strange_ results. Using totally fake IPs here is what I'm trying to set up. ( As typing this I see Chuck just posted to the thread with similar information. ) Host system with three NICs: eth0, eth1, eth2. Fedora

Re: [Vserver] having a routing problem from guests

2006-09-29 Thread Chuck
On Friday 29 September 2006 11:48, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: looks like you are doing what i did in the beginning.. using ifconfig.. wont work.. you must install iproute2 and use the rules and tables in order for it to work. my config is similar to what would be needed for iproute

Re: [Vserver] having a routing problem from guests

2006-09-29 Thread Chuck
On Friday 29 September 2006 11:53, Chuck wrote: [snip] Lastly iptables is pretty open. The problem is that though I can ping from a different network to both of the host's to IPs and I can ping out from the three guests that use eth0 and I can ping the eth1 guest from a eth0 guest I

Re: [Vserver] having a routing problem from guests

2006-09-29 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Chuck wrote: On Friday 29 September 2006 11:53, Chuck wrote: [snip] Lastly iptables is pretty open. The problem is that though I can ping from a different network to both of the host's to IPs and I can ping out from the three guests that use eth0 and I can ping the eth1 guest from a eth0

Re: [Vserver] NFS recommendations?

2006-09-29 Thread Corey Wright
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:57:42 +0200 Herbert Poetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 03:03:13PM +0200, Laurent Vallar - aka Val wrote: If you plan to serve NFS from a guest nfs-user-server work fine but without lock support. is that missing lock support an nfs-user-server