On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 09:37:40PM +0100, Marc Chantreux wrote: > hello, > i follow this tutorial: > http://linux-vserver.org/Networking_vserver_guests > there is nothing written about the guest so i hope it's > hotplug and i don't need to reboot. no reboot is required for guest networking, neither host nor guest side > unfortunatly: i see no new interface in foo. which is expected, as Linux-VServer uses IP isolation instead of virtual network stacks (which you can get by utilizing the network namespaces), so the guest will always see a subset (according to the assigned IPs) of the host devices and IPs > do i have to reboot foo? nope > on the host machine, i can see: > > > ip link show dummy0 > 4: dummy0: <BROADCAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN > link/ether da:af:48:aa:25:95 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > > sysctl net/ipv4/ip_forward > net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 > > iptables-save | grep SNAT > -A POSTROUTING -s 10.0.0.0/8 -d ! 10.0.0.0/8 -j SNAT --to-source 212.85.154.29 > > grep -R . /etc/vservers/descartes/interfaces/1 > /etc/vservers/foo/interfaces/1/ip:10.0.0.2 > /etc/vservers/foo/interfaces/1/prefix:8 > /etc/vservers/foo/interfaces/1/dev:dummy0 > /etc/vservers/foo/interfaces/1/name:virt0 with this config, if you start the guest, util-vserver will (according to your config) create an alias 'dummy0:virt0' with the ip 10.0.0.2/8 and assign that address to your guest HTH, Herbert > regards > > -- > Marc Chantreux > BibLibre, expert en logiciels libres pour l'info-doc > http://biblibre.com