Re: [Xen-users] understanding routed networking with xen 3.0

[Ted Kaczmarek <tedkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 13:37 +0100, Henning Sprang wrote:
> Hi,
> I am a bit confused about how to set up routed instead of bridged
> networking with xen 3.0.
> 
> In the xen 3.0 manual, routed networking is only mentioned "in the fine
> print", multiple mails with questions about that topic in this list have
> not been answered, and if I try the steps described in a mail on this
> list, to which the xenwiki page about Networking points, I only get 
> "Error: Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. Backend device not found"
> Besides that, The xend.log doesn't tell anything that makes me
> understand what's happening.
> 
> I am a bit suspecting that routed networking support had been dropped in
> xen 3.0, is it so? If not, what could I try, where could I look at to
> get it going?
> 
> Henning
> 
> 

Routed is basically assigning the domU to an interface and the egress
for those packets is a different interface on the dom0. It is really
simplistic, hence the lack of documentation. 

Regards,
Ted




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