Subject: Re: [vserver] Vserver network setup
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:25:06 +0200

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:41:00AM +0200, Laurens Vets wrote:
> Hello list,

> I currently have a host with 1 external (routable) ip address and want 
> to start using guests which also have external (routable) ip addresses. 
> However, they are in a different subnet than the ip of the host.

> What is the best way to configure this?

> My guess would be to let the host act as a gateway 

you can do that on a recent kernel with network namespaces ...

> and set up source routing for the new subnet?

... but usually source based routing and multiple routing tables
are more than sufficient to achieve that with network
isolation as well.

whatever works for you is fine.

> Thank you for your help.

best,
Herbert