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Re: [Xen-users] Xen 3.0, setting up a virtual network with NAT

On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 02:10:16PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 10:33:11PM +0100, CJ van den Berg wrote:
> > Then let Xen do the rest. Don't worry if your dhcp server refuses to start.
> > That's because it doesn't have any addresses to serve. Xen will add a
> > static IP assignment to the dhcpd.conf file for each domU that is created
> > and restart the dhcp server.
> > 
> > I have also made several enhancements to my local vif-nat so that a dns
> > server is also updated dynamically for each created domU, which allows me to
> > use hostnames when communicating from one domU to another. So I never have
> > to figure out what IP address a domU has.
> 
> Thanks for this description.  These sorts of messages should be in the
> official documentation!

You're welcome.

> The problem I have which prevents me from using dynamically assigned
> IP addresses is I want incoming connections to be diverted to known
> domU's.  If the domU's IP addresses change, then that is considerably
> more difficult.

The vif-nat script will only generate an IP address if you don't specify one
in the domU config file. If you need the domU to always use the same
address just use:

vif = [ 'ip=10.0.0.1' ]

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