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    Understand bridged networking with KVM

    I am a KVM-newbee and have a question about KVM and bridged networking for Ubuntu 12.04.

    I am investigating how to setup a virtualized firewall, Sophos UTM 9 and has not fully understand how to configure the KVM-host bridged networking.

    The KVM-host has three phsyical NICS:

    • Internal - eth0
    • Wireless - eth1
    • External - eth2


    Internal network
    Network: 192.168.1.0/24
    GW: 192.168.1.1 (UTM9 NIC IP-adress)

    UTM9 is both DHCP-server and gateway for the Internal Network, has the static IP-adress 192.168.1.1. The KVM-host has a static IP-address on this network, 192.168.1.250

    Wireless network
    Network: 192.168.4.0/24
    GW: 192.168.4.1 (UTM9 NIC IP-adress)

    UTM9 is both DHCP-server and gateway for the Wireless Network, has the static IP-address 192.168.4.1
    The KVM-host shall not have IP-connectivity on this network.

    External network
    Network 147.13.10.0/25
    GW: 147.13.10.1 (ISP gateway)

    UTM9 has a static IP-adresses on External, 147.13.10.2.
    The KVM-host shall not have IP-connectivity on this network.

    My question is how I shall setup bridged networking on the KVM-host? Can anyone give me an example how to configure /etc/networking/interfaces with bridged networking on the KVM-host according to above?



    Cheers
    Last edited by Erik-NA; February 2nd, 2013 at 05:24 PM.

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    Re: Understand bridged networking with KVM

    I have done some progress.

    /etc/network/interfaces is now configured as followed:

    Code:
    # The loopback network interface
    auto lo
    iface lo inet loopback
    
    #Internal network
    auto eth0
    iface eth0 inet manual
    
    auto br0
    iface br0 inet static
            address 192.168.1.250
            network 192.168.1.0
            netmask 255.255.255.0
            broadcast 192.168.1.255
            gateway 192.168.1.1
            dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1
            bridge_ports eth0
            bridge_fd 9
            bridge_hello 2
            bridge_maxage 12
            bridge_stp off
    
    #Wireless network
    auto eth1
    iface eth1 inet manual
    
    auto br1
    iface br1 inet static
            bridge_ports eth1
            bridge_fd 9
            bridge_hello 2
            bridge_maxage 12
            bridge_stp off
    
    #External network
    auto eth2
    iface eth2 inet manual
    
    auto br2
    iface br2 inet static
            bridge_ports eth2
            bridge_fd 9
            bridge_hello 2
            bridge_maxage 12
            bridge_stp off
    When I restart networking I am getting the following errors:

    Br1:
    Missing required variable: address
    Missing required configuration variables for interface br1/inet.

    Br2:
    Missing required variable: address
    Missing required configuration variables for interface br2/inet.

    The problem is that I do not want the KVM-host to have networking on eth1 and eth2. However, the virtual instance should have networking on these two physical interfaces.

    How do I fix this?
    Last edited by Erik-NA; February 3rd, 2013 at 10:26 AM.

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    Re: Understand bridged networking with KVM

    I am reading https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/Networking and it seems that when using bridged networking, virtual guests are accessing the network using the KVM-hosts IP address?

    I want go give my VM guest their own IPs, which is described in the "IP Aliases" chapter. But I do not want the KVM-host to have IP-connectivity on eth1 and eth2. How do I solve that?
    Last edited by Erik-NA; February 3rd, 2013 at 10:58 AM.

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    Re: Understand bridged networking with KVM

    This seems to work.

    Code:
    # The loopback network interface
    auto lo
    iface lo inet loopback
    
    #Internal network
    auto eth0
    iface eth0 inet manual
    
    auto br0
    iface br0 inet static
    	address 192.168.1.250
            network 192.168.1.0
            netmask 255.255.255.0
            broadcast 192.168.1.255
            gateway 192.168.1.1
            dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1
            bridge_ports eth0
            bridge_fd 9
            bridge_hello 2
            bridge_maxage 12
            bridge_stp off
    
    #Wireless network
    auto eth1
    iface eth1 inet manual
    
    auto br1
    iface br1 inet static
            address 0.0.0.0
            bridge_ports eth1
            bridge_hello 2
            bridge_maxage 12
            bridge_stp off
            bridge_fd 0
            bridge_maxwait 0
    
    #External network
    auto eth2
    iface eth2 inet manual
    
    auto br2
    iface br2 inet static
            address 0.0.0.0
            bridge_ports eth2
            bridge_hello 2
            bridge_maxage 12
            bridge_stp off
            bridge_fd 0
            bridge_maxwait 0

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    Re: Understand bridged networking with KVM

    False response, the networking is not functional on br1 and br2

    I am starting to believe that it is impossible to deny IP-connectivity for the KVM-host on a bridged (physical) interface?

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