Re: Xen and VLANs

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 12:39:22PM +0100, Johan Ihren wrote:
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> Hi Manuel,
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> >>Any ideas anyone?
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> >I tried this too, and this doesn't work. The problem is with the way
> >bridge and vlan works, once you have a brige packets will never be
> >passed to the vlan interfaces (or the opposite, I don't remember).
> >
> >My workaround was to bridge the N vlan interface in dom0 (creating N
> >xennet interface for each domU) instead of bridging the physical  
> >interface
> >and creating the vlans in each domU
> 
> Ho hum. I see.
> 
> I understand your workaround, but unfortunately it doesn't work for  
> me because I actually need the physical interface to be bridged  
> because that's the way I arrange remote login access to students  
> (located at various desktops outside without any VLANs). Yes, I know  
> it's messy to mix both tagged and untagged traffic over the same  
> infrastructure, but that's the only solution I found.
> 
> Another alternative (vastly preferred from my POV) was if there was  
> any way to connect to the domUs from the dom0 without involving the  
> physical interface at all. I.e. if the dom0 also had one (or several)  
> "virtual" xennetN, then everything would work out just fine with a  
> cleaner design than both your workaround and my (non-functional)  
> attempt.
> 
> Would it be possible to add that?

Yes, of course. When you have a xennetN in a virtual domain, there is
a corresponding interface in dom0 named xvifX.N, where X is the domain's
number. You can then route or bridge these interfaces, leaving the physical
interface out of the setup

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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