[Users] Public/Private IP Configuration

Daniel Pittman daniel at rimspace.net
Thu Jun 3 04:13:25 EDT 2010


Aleksey Mykhailov <aleksey at kodingen.com> writes:
> On Thursday 03 June 2010 04:18:10 Daniel Pittman wrote:
>
>> No you don't; you can use the Linux policy routing tools (iproute2 and
>> friends) to select the routing table to use based on the source address of
>> the packets.
>>
>> Configure that on your host node, and the venet stuff will just work,
>>  because it uses regular old IP routing to move traffic around.
>>
>> http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.html#LARTC.RPDB.SIMPLE
>
> Why not veth ?

Using a virtual Ethernet device has a bunch of trade-offs, as documented in
the wiki.  That said, it would work; it just isn't the *only* option. :)

So, my comment was meant to say "you can also do it this way", rather than
"you must do it this way".  Sorry if that wasn't clear.

        Daniel

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