On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 10:28:53AM -0800, David Lang wrote:
> we're evaluating different options for these virtual machines. for the 
> vmware option there is a claim that the host doesn't need to have an IP 
> address on a particular nic to allow a virtual machine to access things on 
> that nic. if the host doesn't try to process the packet, but instead just 
> hands it to the uml then odds are that any network based kernel 
> vunerabilities will happen in the uml as opposed to the host system

This sounds exactly like bridging, with the host eth device not having 
an IP address.

                                Jeff


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