Subject: Re: [vserver] Newbei's questions
From: Stephen Liu <satimis@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:44:46 +0800 (CST)

Hi Martin,


Thanks for your further advice.


> On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 22:30 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> > --- Martin <inkubus@interalpha.co.uk> wrote:
> <snip>
> > I'm running VMWare here.  My bitter experience on it is Mail and
> Web
> > servers must run on Host for single IP address.  All servers
> running on
> > VMWare have only single way traffic to Internet, i.e. they can
> connnect
> > Internet but Internet can't get into them.  I must forward ports 25
> and
> > 80 to Guest server.  In such arrangement the Host has no
> communication
> > ports.  Unless I have multiple IP address.  They can't share IP
> > address.
> This is a feature / limitation of IP.  If you want to serve multiple
> domains from the same webserver / mail server, most can be configured
> to
> do this (IIRC these are 'vhosts' in Apache parlance).  


I'm doing this way for single IP.  What I can't resolve is the main use
of virtualization on single IP.  What server shall I build/run on
virtual server?


- snip =

> > What happen to the Guest on VServer?  TIA
> In the classical case you have one IP per guest.  Sharing IPs between
> guests is also possible.


Whether you meant sharing router IPs, NOT public IP to allow Internet 
getting into the Guests without port forwarding.  Thanks


B.R.
Stephen L

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