Matt Burgess wrote: > I've seen plenty of virtual systems with multiple virtual NICs. This is > quite often seen in enterprise environments where non-production systems > use virtualisation to minimise hardware spend, in order to support > production systems that are deployed on real tin. The layer 3 network > design is usually kept consistent between production and non-production > environments in order to rule out differences between them causing any > behavioural differences. Therefore, if you can imagine a production > system requiring management, application and backup VLANs, for example, > the non-production VM would have to have 3 virtual NICs.
Thanks for the info. I've never seen that myself, but do note that multiple IP addresses can be attached to a single nic, virtual or not. We do support that now. Two questions still arise. Does LFS need to be able to support this unusual configuration "out of the box"? Does the virtual multi-nic configuration need to be set in the udev rules prior to the first boot? Note too that there is no way to have the HW system and the virtual system identical because, at a minimum, the network drivers would be different. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
