Subject: Re: [vserver] Adding IPs to a vhost interface on demand
From: Peter Sabaini <peter@sabaini.at>
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:58:33 +0100
Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:58:33 +0100
On Sunday 21 December 2008 00:58:40 Ed W wrote:
> Hi, interested in putting openvpn in a vhost.  Previously I had a
> bridged setup with the openvpn server dynamically picking up IP
> addresses from the DHCP server and allocating those to the clients.
>
> Just for kicks I am interested to see if I can achieve something similar
> in a vserver.  Any thoughts on the best way to proceed?  Is it possible
> to give a guest permission to add IP address aliases dynamically?  The
> other option (for this small setup) is presumably to allocate X IPs to
> the guest in advance and just limit it to handing out these. (and routed
> is yet another option, but for the moment I am trying to make a bridged
> setup work)
>
> Any tips on a bridged openvpn vserver?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ed W

Don't know if this answers your question -- I had a similar task some time ago 
(assign IPs after vserver startup, in a failover-scenario) and received some 
suggestions here: http://archives.linux-vserver.org/200611/0080.html 

HTH,
peter.



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