On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 7:48 PM, APURVA PATIL <apurva...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On establishing the open-vSwitch connection on the host , I have a doubt in > properly understanding the folloowing problems : > > I am not getting the networking details how does the host gets Internet > connectivity even when the eth0 gets an IP of 0.0.0.0? > Is it through br0?
Yes. > What doe up while specifying eth0 to become 0.0.0.0 specify ? > How does that actually work? > And how do the VMs get the Internet connectivity just by enabling the option > to connect to the bridge during its installation? > Means how does the VMs also get IP addresses? > Networking part is not at all understood. OVS is operating as a layer 2 switch. The various IP stacks of the host and VMs connect to ports on the switch, just like in the physical world. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
