On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 05:50:56PM +0200, Jeroen Kleijer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been reading up on the xen networking options / differences as
> written in http://wiki.kartbuilding.net/index.php/Xen_Networking and
> see a couple of examples that interest me like the (default) bridging
> but also the routed networking.
>
> However, the thing I'm most interested in would be transparant network
> bridging like a firewall bridge where the bridging host (dom0) has no
> exposed IP address to the outside world and is only accessible through
> the console or a completely separate management interface (eth1, not
> accessible from any of the domU's)
>
> Since dom0 has no IP interface exposed to the outside but only acts as
> a bridge from the outside to the domU's, that would make the dom0 a
> bit more secure.
>
> Would such a implementation be feasible or does the dom0 network
> interface always have to have an IP stack for the bridging to work?
The IP interface doesn't have to have an IP address, just be up, but I
don't know if such configuration is supported by xen's network
configuration scripts.
-- 
lfr
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