Hello Folks,
I need to setup infrastacture where I need to bridge 3 different VM's via 2 different distinct bridge group
and it has to be completly virtual so no physical mapping.
VM 1 -- BR1 -- VM 2 --- BR 2 --- VM 3
Initially, I thought to use tun/tap inteface and use mapping like
tap0 mapped to VM1 via vmnet bridge
tap0 mapped to VM2 eth1
tap1 mapped to VM2 eth2
tap1 mapped to VM3 eth 1
and use something like this
vmnet-bridge vmnet10 tap0 &
vmnet-bridge vmnet11 tap1 &
It doesn't work.
Then I decided to use Montain Lion bridging infrastacture and bridge nativly via kernel. ( Mountain Lion support that)
ifconfig bridge0 create
ifconfig bridge0 up addm vmnet10
ifconfig bridge0 up addm tap0
ifconfig bridge1 create
ifconfig bridge1 up addm vmnet11
ifconfig bridge1 up addm tap0
The problem with that solution as soon as you
ifconfig bridge1 up addm vmnet11 -- it leads to kernel crash ( I open a case already)
An example
ifconfig bridge1 create
ifconfig bridge1 up addm tap0
ifconfig bridge1 up addm tap1
Preffectly fine and it does bridging between tap0 and tap 1 interface.
any other alternative ideas how I can do that.
I can't use VLAN interface since VLAN interface has to be mapped to physical interface i.e eth0
Fusion 5.0.2 latest build
Mountain Lion latest build and patched.
Kind Regards,
Mustafa