[arch-general] tap device

[arnaud gaboury]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 Mar 2014 17:32:27 arnaud gaboury wrote:
>> It was UP before I brought vb down. So you have your answer : yes.
>
> OK, so in that case, I'd recommend not doing anything special on the host to bring the vb-
> dahlia interface up. It's behaving just like a normal interface would on a real system: the
> interface should be brought up and configured as normal in the container; the host doesn't
> need to do anything special.
>
> So you should have this situation:
>
> The host has configuration that creates a bridge br0, containing only the physical interface
> enp7s0. The bridge should be given the IP address that you want the host to have.
>
> When the container is started, using --network-bridge=br0, the host automatically creates
> the vb-dahlia interface and adds it to the br0 bridge. No additional configuration is
> necessary on the host.

Exactly what it happens
>
> The container should configure its network exactly as for a normal, non-virtualised system.
> It can use DHCP if necessary, in which case it will receive an IP on the same network as
> the host. Conceptually, they are connected to the same network via a hub/switch.
>
Not a bad idea to set up this part in container.