Greetings everyone,
I am getting some rackspace of 5U and would like to use it as good as possible. Therefore I have created a linux bridge through a ubuntu VM which has 2x dual 10gb cards and 2x 1gbps adapters running in passthrough mode.
The bridge also has a single VMXNET3 adapter which runs in vSwitch1 so i can also connect other VM's on the host to the bridge network. The bridge works fine and I can also use VLAN tagging... Now, my question here is that I would like to know if it's possible to use an interface from the bridge just as an "access-port"? Meaning, there will not be going any tagged vlan traffic through this, just untagged.
Reason is, I need an uplink for the WAN connection which I can distribute over trunk to the other 4 hosts that I will be having. Is such thing possible, does it need to be done with something like eth0.X interface? Also on the other end, I would like all the other interfaces in the bridge (including the VMXNET3) to ONLY do tagged traffic, like a trunked port. I'm naming it trunked/access port since I have been living in the cisco world for a while.
Would openvswitch eventually be a better choice?
Thanks!
Chris
I am getting some rackspace of 5U and would like to use it as good as possible. Therefore I have created a linux bridge through a ubuntu VM which has 2x dual 10gb cards and 2x 1gbps adapters running in passthrough mode.
The bridge also has a single VMXNET3 adapter which runs in vSwitch1 so i can also connect other VM's on the host to the bridge network. The bridge works fine and I can also use VLAN tagging... Now, my question here is that I would like to know if it's possible to use an interface from the bridge just as an "access-port"? Meaning, there will not be going any tagged vlan traffic through this, just untagged.
Reason is, I need an uplink for the WAN connection which I can distribute over trunk to the other 4 hosts that I will be having. Is such thing possible, does it need to be done with something like eth0.X interface? Also on the other end, I would like all the other interfaces in the bridge (including the VMXNET3) to ONLY do tagged traffic, like a trunked port. I'm naming it trunked/access port since I have been living in the cisco world for a while.
Would openvswitch eventually be a better choice?
Thanks!
Chris