[ale] Virtual networks

[DJ-Pfulio]

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/BRIDGE-STP-HOWTO/what-is-a-bridge.html


On 05/12/2015 09:55 AM, Dustin Strickland wrote:
>     My understanding of networking does not extend past physical interfaces. I
> have a Wheezy VM host that runs many different services for my LAN; OS testing,
> various database, LDAP, web, etc. servers. Currently all running under KVM. All
> of the VMs aside from OS testing are connected to a virtual network I created
> with virt-manager (0.9.1), which I have set as 172.16.0.0/12 (a little
> excessive, maybe? :P). Some don't even have an upstream connection, so can only
> be accessed from the host. This all works great on my LAN, but I am thinking of
> adding OpenVPN on the host so I and other users can more easily access these
> services from mobile devices.
> 
>     From what I read about OpenVPN's setup, it's required to bridge an
> interface. I haven't looked too much in to this as it seems a little
> over-my-head and I haven't had sufficient time to dedicate to the task as of
> yet. Would the bridged interface be a bridge of the VLAN interface?
> Additionally, if this is the case, I would need to define this bridge in
> addition to the VLAN in /etc/networking/interfaces (or else the bridge that
> OpenVPN is trying to attach to would be created before the interface that it's
> bridging), correct? Or am I just thinking about this entirely the wrong way? Any
> suggestions/explanations/this-is-an-IT-nightmare-have-you-considered-doing-it-this-way's
> are greatly appreciated.
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