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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/20/2016 03:21 AM, Gk Gk wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi,
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<div>Referring to the link <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/VirtualNetworking">http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/VirtualNetworking</a>,
the scenario described for the routed mode, explains that </div>
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<div>"<span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.6px;line-height:18.9px">Host
has public IP and virtual machines have static public IPs.
But one can't use bridged networking, since provider accept
only packets from the MAC address of the host"</span></div>
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style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.6px;line-height:18.9px"><br>
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<div><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.6px;line-height:18.9px">Can
someone explain to me why doesn't the switch accept the
packets from the guest vms' mac addresses also since they
have public IPs in the bridged mode ?</span></div>
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Because the people who have administrative control over the switch
have configured it that way. (Of course, if they're that
restrictive, it's doubtful that they would allocate an entire subnet
to a customer's machine, and reconfigure their routing tables to
deal with it).<br>
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