Re: [Libvir] [PATCH] Add a default network

2007-03-09 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 14:57 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 01:52:31PM +, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > Another way you could imagine would be for the your router to act as an > > IPv6 router for a delegated prefix, but I'm not sure how the ISP would > > communicate

Re: [Libvir] [PATCH] Add a default network

2007-03-09 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
Daniel P. Berrange wrote: And the "Stateless autoconfiguration" diagram seems to be exactly what I think we'd want. Every guest has a MAC addr so that deals with the lower 64-bits of the adress, but how do we choose the upper 64-bits to form our 'router advertisment'... Perhaps that's the bit th

Re: [Libvir] [PATCH] Add a default network

2007-03-09 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 01:52:31PM +, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 18:15 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > Do link-local addreses > > let the guest communicate with outside world, or is only enablling the > > VM-to-VM and VM-to-Host communications ? > > link-local ad

Re: [Libvir] [PATCH] Add a default network

2007-03-09 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 18:15 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:37:46AM +, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > However, with IPv6, the combination of link-local addresses, address > > auto-configuration and network renumbering should largely eliminate > > these problems. >

Re: [Libvir] [PATCH] Add a default network

2007-03-07 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:37:46AM +, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 17:15 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:09:58PM +, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > > So, we want to install a default network which guests can connect to. > > > This can be seen a

Re: [Libvir] [PATCH] Add a default network

2007-03-06 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 17:15 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:09:58PM +, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > So, we want to install a default network which guests can connect to. > > This can be seen as e.g. a replacement for xenbr0 as the default bridge > > for xen guest

Re: [Libvir] [PATCH] Add a default network

2007-03-02 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:09:58PM +, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > So, we want to install a default network which guests can connect to. > This can be seen as e.g. a replacement for xenbr0 as the default bridge > for xen guests. > 2) IP address choice - I've randomly chosen 192.168.122.1/

Re: [Libvir] [PATCH] Add a default network

2007-03-02 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:09:58PM +, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > Hey, > So, we want to install a default network which guests can connect to. > This can be seen as e.g. a replacement for xenbr0 as the default bridge > for xen guests. > > A few things concern me about the patch, see b

[Libvir] [PATCH] Add a default network

2007-02-26 Thread Mark McLoughlin
Hey, So, we want to install a default network which guests can connect to. This can be seen as e.g. a replacement for xenbr0 as the default bridge for xen guests. A few things concern me about the patch, see below for my thinking. However, I'm happy to punt on all of these issues f