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Re: [Xen-devel] VIF setup



Jody Belka wrote:
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 08:40:08PM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Adam Sulmicki wrote:

      /sbin/ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 up

Am I the only person who sees this as a tad odd? I can't escape thinking about a real bridge. Seems to me each eth or vif you add to a bridge should retain its IP and the bridge, basically being a device that does mac-layer routing, has no IP.


Actually, if you think about it, it makes complete sense. I really can't
imagine a switch where each port has it's own IP address. The switch itself
having an IP address on the other hand is perfectly reasonable, as in the
case of a managed switch.


I guess this is an artifact of how it is implemented?


I think it'd be wierd if it worked any other way, taking the above into account.


J


Check the linux bridge howto at

http://bridge.sourceforge.net/howto.html

This site also has pointers to other info.
There's really nothing special about the xen-br0 bridge, it's
just a normal linux bridge.

Mike


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