[libvirt-users] Need information
Laine Stump
laine at laine.org
Sat May 21 19:11:34 UTC 2016
On 05/20/2016 03:21 AM, Gk Gk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Referring to the link http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/VirtualNetworking,
> the scenario described for the routed mode, explains that
>
> "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"
>
> 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 ?
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).
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