> [...] > Consider dummy0 a closed door, no traffic > will ever pass that door. lo is a room with two doors, traffic goes into > the room, is modified a little and leaves through to other door, > re-entering the local host. And eth0 is the door to the outside, with a > long tunnel and another door the leads to another box. > So there are effectively 2 doors to choose, either have the traffic stay > on the host, or leave it. > > [...] > > Again, it doesn't matter on which interface the ip address is setup, the > packets always travel through the interface that leads to the target ip > address, and that's lo in our case. A vServer is in no way a seperate > box.
Thanks for the pictorial description; I start to figure it out... Nevertheless, taking up from "lo as 2 doors", wouldn't it have been clearer to have an alias for "lo", instead of a new interface "dummy0" for the sole purpose of assigning it a different IP address? I.e. is it possible to have e.g. a "lo:dummy0" alias? But maybe "dummy0" has yet other properties (?) that are not apparent from the above explanation. Gilles _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
