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Re: [Xen-devel] two host interfaces to same virtual lan?

To: Mark Williamson <Mark.Williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] two host interfaces to same virtual lan?
From: Adam Heath <doogie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 21:39:33 -0500 (CDT)
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On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Mark Williamson wrote:

> The default behavior is a dedicated virtual "wire" (implemented as shared
> memory) from each domain to a virtual nic in dom0 - dom0 then does bridging /
> switching with the standard Linux bridge code.
>
> You could equally well have dom0 do routing between the vifs, rather than
> bridging (in fact, we'd like to have scripts for doing this at some stage).

You'll get them at some point.

We use completely diskless machines.  Nfsroot and all.  And, the bridge code
turns off the primary nic momentarily, which then of course means / is no
longer accessible.


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