[Xen-users] Re: Setting up firewall as Dom-U

[Martin Leben <ml060223@xxxxxxxx>]

Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> I have a second NIC that I would like to plug into the net directly and then
> bridge with a virtual interface in a dom-u. The virtual interface will be
> setup to dynamically acquire its IP (iso restriction) but I don't want Dom-0
> to have access to the net with the physical nic.
>
> Would I simply assign it 0.0.0.0 as an IP with a mask of 255.255.255.255 to
> accomplish this?
>
> Thanks!
> jlc

Hi!

A bridge is at layer two, while IP is on layer three. So there is no need to 
configure the IP layer at all to get bridging to work. Not even "0.0.0.0".
BR
/Martin


_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users