Re: [ovs-discuss] Still some question for a beginner on working VBox with Open vSwitch

2011-04-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 03:15:00PM -0500, Hugo wrote: > I am wondering > 1. if the statically assigning the IP address, can this IP address be an > internal IP address (such as any 192.168.1.100) or a external IP address > that should be requested from ISP? > 2. if DHCP the ip address, does Open vS

Re: [ovs-discuss] Still some question for a beginner on working VBox with Open vSwitch

2011-04-01 Thread Hugo
Thanks for the quick reply. I am wondering 1. if the statically assigning the IP address, can this IP address be an internal IP address (such as any 192.168.1.100) or a external IP address that should be requested from ISP? 2. if DHCP the ip address, does Open vSwitch will be performed as the DHCP

Re: [ovs-discuss] Still some question for a beginner on working VBox with Open vSwitch

2011-04-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 03:01:19PM -0500, Hugo wrote: > And I start up the VM in VitualBox. But the result is that VM could not > access the internet. There is no ip address assigned to eth0 within the VM > either. So I am still confused about how to connect the VM to the internet > in this way. Is

[ovs-discuss] Still some question for a beginner on working VBox with Open vSwitch

2011-04-01 Thread Hugo
Hi, Everyone, As suggested, I repeated the experiment with some modification. FYI, I describe it here. I install a VM in a VirtualBox. I use the command “VBoxTunctl” from VirtualBox to set up a tap device. (So by typing ifconfig -a, you will see a device named "tap0".) Instead of NAT, I choose the