cannot get bridged networking for KVM to work

Submitted by jopebw on Fri, 06/20/2014 - 03:42 Pro Licensee

I setup a new cloudmin install for hosting 3 KVM guests. Currently i am having problems to create the correct bridge setup. At my ISP only the Host system can talk to the router, so i must use bridging i think. In a former install with Debian 6 i never setup a bridge, instead i used pointopoint in the network configuration of the clients - which works fine.

I followed these instructions to setup br1: https://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/cloudmin/bridge

But now i end up in a configuration where the host system now answers pings and ssh requests for IP's of the bridge, not the guest system.

Would be nice if someone can point me in the right direction.

__ Best Jochen

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

Comments

Submitted by JamieCameron on Fri, 06/20/2014 - 13:08

Can you post the output of the following commands on your host system :

ifconfig -a
brctl show
netstat -rn

Also, who is your hosting company? Some like OVH has weird requirements about allowed IPs and MACs.

Submitted by jopebw on Sun, 06/22/2014 - 07:52 Pro Licensee

Hi Jamie,

thank you very much for your help! I have found a solution now. I am using again a routed configuration with pointopoint - which works well.

Best Jochen