RE: [Xen-devel] Re: nfsroot and brige

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Keir Fraser wrote:
> > Well, leaving in the etherbridge patch is easier than removing
> > it. I'll leave it for the time being.
> 
> Um, what is the etherbridge patch actually? I missed the references to
> it.

2.4 needs the bridge-nf to be able to use netfilter (iptables) in the
presence of a bridge.

> But, I'd just like to make sure - this aversion to bridging is because
> of bridges getting configured wrong, people having wrong assumptions
> on how they work, and bridges being a bad default choice, right? There
> aren't any known actual bugs in Xen or bridge code wrt. bridging
> setups, are there?

Briding works fine if configured correctly.

Ian

> The reason is that we are/will be using bridging really extensively,
> possibly soon with Xen virtual machines, although the configuration of
> the bridges is going to be totally custom.
> 
> -- Naked
> 
> 
> 
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