Am 24.06.2013 13:08, schrieb Matthew Miller: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:15:11AM +0930, Glen Turner wrote: >> Sun's tagline of "the network is the computer" was true. But for servers >> these days "the computer is the network" is also the case. It's nothing >> for a server today to statically NAT or bridge IPv4 to VMs. Even in that >> case it's best if the guest VM picks up its IPv4 addressing using DHCP. >> >> But in the future we'll want to do better than that: to move network >> routing onto the server itself. These new "data centre ethernet" protocols >> are not entirely implemented in kernel space. Some run quite complex BGP >> and MPLS control planes; others run IS-IS control planes. > > So, the converse is that as actual workloads move to VMs (let alone cloud), > the host systems become a special case, and the "normal" case for a server > tends to become much more simple: either a single interface probably with > fixed-address DHCP, or in most complicated cases several interfaces on > specific networks known by convention yes, and all these setups are more than satisfied with network.service and do not need more complexity with a running daemon like NM they are also not affected from the interface-renamings and race-conditions which are the reson for biosdevname and the new systemd-replacement because typically in a VM you have even with multiple interfaces the same NIC type and driver
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