Re: why vimage?

Jeremie Le Hen schrieb:
> Hi Julian,
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 08:53:52AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
>   
>>  I can give a very simple example of something you can do trivially on 
>>  vimage:
>>
>>  Make three virtual machines on yhour laptop:
>>  The base machine and two others.
>>  Have the first 'other' machine be assigned an IP address on
>>  your HOME LAN.
>>  have the second virtual machine have an IP adddress on
>>  your WORK LAN.
>>  use the base machine to run encrypted tunnels from where-ever
>>  you happen to be to your work and home.. when you put the laptop to sleep 
>>  (assuming the tcp sessions are quiescent (no keepalives))
>>  then when you wake it up say an hour later.. as soon as the base machine has 
>>  an IP address.. viola, your session on the virtual
>>  machines are still alive.
>>     
>
> On this post [1], Marko states:
>
> % Each NICs is logically attached to one and only one network stack
> % instance at a time, and it receives data from upper layers and feeds
> % the upper layers with mbufs in exactly the same manner as it does on
> % the standard kernel.  It is the link layer that demultiplexes the
> % incoming traffic to the appropriate stack instance...
>
> As I understand it, there is only one vimage per interface.  I'm surely
> wrong or the setup you described wouldn't be possible.
>
> Any explanation will be welcome :).
> Thanks,
>   
I am sure you can use the bridge interface for this.

Arne