On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 08:07 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 19:04 +0800, Patrick Nagel wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > can the IP address assigned to a guest be changed from the host during
> > runtime? If so, how?
> >
> > Background info: I have an openvpn client running on the host, which
> > provides a VPN connection to one of the guests. Recently the IP address of
> > the local VPN endpoint changed. The guest could no longer use the VPN. I
> > had to shut the guest down, change /etc/vservers/guest/interfaces/ip to the
> > new local VPN endpoint IP address and start it up again.
> >
> > Patrick.
> >
> I'm not sure how well it will play with OpenVPN but you can try
> naddress. Perhaps remove the current address from the guest, remove it
> from the host with the ip command, add the new address to the host with
> ip, and then associate it with the guest via naddress. Then change the
> configuration files to make the change permanent. Hope that helps -
> John
>
That is, remove it from the guest with naddress :(
Received on Fri Jun 11 13:12:50 2010