On Jul 17, 2013 11:58 PM, "Nilesh Govindrajan" <me@nileshgr.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I need some help settling up networking with KVM machines.
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> I have one public interface with four publicly accessible IPs.
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> I want to run a private virtual network for the VMs, such that every VM can access every other VM and host, also host can access every VM (required for NAT).
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> So far I tried this:
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> Create two tap interfaces.
> Add them to a bridge
> Assign IP to bridge
> Set different MACs for VMs' NICs.
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> This let's me access one VM to another also VM to host (not sure about this, ping works).
> But I'm not able to use host to VM (ping works), I'm not able to connect to sshd running inside VM from host.

Alon, thanks a lot for the guide. It worked.
Also was missing a iptables rule to allow bridging traffic.

William, sounds interesting, will check it out later.

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