(Partially reposted, as I screwed up while copy and pasting my configs; sorry for the noise.) Hello all, can anyone recommend a better way to achive (guest agnostic) MAC-address isolation in qemu/kvm than with usermodes/slirp networking? It's too slow. I have multiple guests on the same host, all requiring identical MAC-addresses. My current debian setup is as follows: /etc/network/interfaces: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto br0 iface br0 inet static address 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.0.254 metric 1 bridge_ports eth0 eth1 bridge_stp off bridge_fd 0 bridge_maxwait 0 post-up echo 600 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time post-up echo 50 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_probes post-up echo 10 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_intvl auto natbr0 iface natbr0 inet static address 10.0.2.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 metric 1 bridge_ports eth0 bridge_stp off bridge_fd 0 bridge_maxwait 0 pre-up modprobe ip_conntrack_tftp pre-up modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp pre-up modprobe ip_nat_tftp pre-up modprobe ip_nat_ftp up echo "`route -n | sed -n 's/^0\.0\.0\.0 .* \(.*\)$/\1/p'`" > /var/run/${IFACE}_route up /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --interface=${IFACE} --except-interface=lo --bind-interfaces --user=nobody \ --dhcp-range=natbr0,10.0.2.15,10.0.2.15,255.255.255.0,10.0.2.255,72h \ --domain=localnet --pid-file=/var/run/${IFACE}_dnsmasq.pid --conf-file up echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward up iptables -A FORWARD -s 10.0.2.0/24 -j ACCEPT up iptables -A FORWARD -d 10.0.2.0/24 -j ACCEPT post-up iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o natbr0 -j MASQUERADE post-up echo 600 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time post-up echo 50 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_probes post-up echo 10 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_intvl down iptables -D FORWARD -s 10.0.2.0/24 -j ACCEPT down iptables -D FORWARD -d 10.0.2.0/24 -j ACCEPT down iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -o natbr0 -j MASQUERADE post-down kill -s TERM `cat /var/run/${IFACE}_dnsmasq.pid` && rm -f /var/run/${IFACE}_dnsmasq.pid post-down rm -f /var/run/${IFACE}_route where my "server boxes" are connected as: /etc/qemu-kvm/qemu-ifup-br: #!/bin/sh BRIDGE=br0 /sbin/ifconfig $1 0.0.0.0 up /usr/sbin/brctl addif $BRIDGE $1 if they need full connectivity, or as: /etc/qemu-kvm/qemu-ifup-natbr: #!/bin/sh BRIDGE=natbr0 /sbin/ifconfig $1 0.0.0.0 up /usr/sbin/brctl addif $BRIDGE $1 /sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o "`route -n | sed -n 's/^0\.0\.0\.0 .* \(.*\)$/\1/p'`" -j MASQUERADE || : "hidden" behind NAT. Only my "client boxes" (multiple virtual client boxes on the same server - currently setup using usermode networking) need identical MACs. They don't need to "talk" to one another, but they do need to be able to talk to the servers and the "outside world". I'm hoping that maybe someone that's a little more "network savvy" can give me a tip in the right direction. vlans, ebtables, iptables, ppp, funky NAT setups, etc... Thanks, and best regards, Robert PS. Please BCC me, as I am not on the list. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html