Re: [Vserver] Network local to vserver host and guests?

From: Roderick A. Anderson <raanders_at_acm.org>
Date: Wed 29 Nov 2006 - 00:28:47 GMT
Message-ID: <456CD43F.3040705@acm.org>

Christian Affolter wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
>> I build and use vservers where the guests need to cooperate with each
>> other. That is, a system with with guests running Postfix,
>> PostgreSQL, or Apache ( multiple guests as they are mod_perl driven )
>> and they all need to communicate with each other. So I want to build
>> a Virtual LAN ( different from my take on a VLAN ) with virtual NICs.
>>
>> Basically the traffic never hits the physical LAN/WAN.
>>
>> That make sense? IS it possible? If so what what should I be looking
>> for in my research?
> Yes it is possible, with the dummy net interface. You'll have to enable
> the dummy net driver support (CONFIG_DUMMY=y) in your kernel.

Thanks Chris. Is there a way test for this? I could ask Daniel if it
got set in the Fedora Core 5 RPMs he built but that would be _really_
lazy. :-)

Rod

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> Chris
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