Re: [Xen-devel] Greater than 3 NIC's in DomU?

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 30/1/07 5:42 pm, "Christian Hergert" <christian.hergert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> do you need 3 physical nics? or just multiple virtual nics?
> 
> i had a problem with this a while back for a few firewalls because i
> wanted a bunch of vlans in a domU. long story short, doing the vlans
> inside the domU vs outside worked out much better for both managment
> and performance. however, i had serious issues with broadcom tg3
> chipset and vlans+xen. once switching to e1000 everything was nice.
> 
> lots of info, may not be applicable, just throwing it out there.

The patch in question allows use of more than 3 virtual NICs per domU. It
has nothing to do with the physical network configuration in dom0.

 -- Keir



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