Re: [Xen-users] Newbie question on network and VM management

[Sarah Newman <srn@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, not enough coffee yet.

Try adding

brctl stp <bridge> off
brctl setageing <bridge> 0
brctl setfd <bridge> 0

to your config. This should turn the bridge into a hub.

On 02/06/2015 08:37 AM, Tengiz Dawkins wrote:
> Thanks Sarah,
> 
> My understanding is that the traffic will be routed inside the Dom0 bridge 
> amongst all the ports
> (layer 2 routing kind of). And will not leave Dom0 at all. Will openVswitch 
> help in this situation?
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Sarah Newman <srn@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:srn@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     On 02/06/2015 08:18 AM, Sarah Newman wrote:
>     > On 02/05/2015 10:14 PM, Tengiz Dawkins wrote:
>     >> thanks all!
>     >>
>     >> I have another question: assume I have 10 DomUs that are talking to 
> each other on the same
>     Xen host.
>     >> What is the easiest way to make sure
>     >> the traffic amongst those DomUs is going *via* the external switch 
> (i.e. leaves DomU, leaves Xen,
>     >> goes up to the switch and then gets back into Xen and gets routed to 
> the dest DomU).
>     >>
>     >> I will need that for IDS server that is capturing the traffic in 
> mirror port on a switch.
>     >
>     > I think one bridge per DomU should do it.
>     >
> 
>     Sorry, that's not necessary. If it's bridged shouldn't the traffic show 
> up everywhere?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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