Signed-off-by: Stefan Hanreich <s.hanre...@proxmox.com>
---
pve-network.adoc | 15 +++++++++------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/pve-network.adoc b/pve-network.adoc
index d1ec64b..62edeb6 100644
--- a/pve-network.adoc
+++ b/pve-network.adoc
@@ -13,11 +13,12 @@ page contains the complete format description. All {pve}
tools try hard to keep
direct user modifications, but using the GUI is still preferable, because it
protects you from errors.
-A 'vmbr' interface is needed to connect guests to the underlying physical
-network. They are a Linux bridge which can be thought of as a virtual switch
-to which the guests and physical interfaces are connected to. This section
-provides some examples on how the network can be set up to accomodate different
-use cases like redundancy with a xref:sysadmin_network_bond['bond'],
+A bridge interface (commonly called 'vmbrX') is needed to connect guests to the
+underlying physical network. They are a Linux bridge which can be thought of
as
+a virtual switch to which the guests and physical interfaces are connected to.
+This section provides some examples on how the network can be set up to
+accomodate different use cases like redundancy with a
+xref:sysadmin_network_bond['bond'],
xref:sysadmin_network_vlan['vlans'] or
xref:sysadmin_network_routed['routed'] and
xref:sysadmin_network_masquerading['NAT'] setups.
@@ -75,7 +76,9 @@ We currently use the following naming conventions for device
names:
scheme is used for {pve} hosts which were installed before the 5.0
release. When upgrading to 5.0, the names are kept as-is.
-* Bridge names: `vmbr[N]`, where 0 ≤ N ≤ 4094 (`vmbr0` - `vmbr4094`)
+* Bridge names: Commonly `vmbr[N]`, where 0 ≤ N ≤ 4094 (`vmbr0` - `vmbr4094`),
+but you can use any alphanumeric string that starts with a character and is at
+most 15 characters long.
* Bonds: `bond[N]`, where 0 ≤ N (`bond0`, `bond1`, ...)
--
2.39.2
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