[libvirt-users] Need information

[Gk Gk]

Hi,

in bridge mode all the guests and hosts should be in the same subnet always
?


Thanks
Kumar

On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 12:41 AM, Laine Stump <laine at laine.org> wrote:

> 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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