Subject: Re: [vserver] Changing a guest's IP address during runtime
From: Patrick Nagel <patrick.nagel@star-group.net>
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:15:02 +0800

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Thanks, John.

On 2010-06-11 20:12, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 08:07 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
>> On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 19:04 +0800, Patrick Nagel wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> can the IP address assigned to a guest be changed from the host during
>>> runtime? If so, how?
>>>
>>> Background info: I have an openvpn client running on the host, which
>>> provides a VPN connection to one of the guests. Recently the IP address of
>>> the local VPN endpoint changed. The guest could no longer use the VPN. I
>>> had to shut the guest down, change /etc/vservers/guest/interfaces/ip to the
>>> new local VPN endpoint IP address and start it up again.
>>>
>>> Patrick.
>>>
>> I'm not sure how well it will play with OpenVPN but you can try
>> naddress.  Perhaps remove the current address from the guest, remove it
>> from the host with the ip command, add the new address to the host with
>> ip, and then associate it with the guest via naddress.  Then change the
>> configuration files to make the change permanent.  Hope that helps -
>> John
>>
> That is, remove it from the guest with naddress :(

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