Hi all, today i need setup a Virtual Server with a veth device since a commercial Software required a Mac Address for the license. I think that it won't be the lasttime that we require such a setup (unfortunately), therfore I put some more effort into the scripts and added information to the wiki. http://wiki.openvz.org/Virtual_Ethernet_device I basicaly change the vznetaddroute script mentioned in the wiki: #!/bin/bash VZCONFDIR=/etc/vz VZHOSTIF=$BASH_ARGV . $VZCONFDIR/conf/$VEID.conf if [ -n $VETH_IP_ADDRESS ]; then echo "Adding interface $VZHOSTIF and route $VETH_IP_ADDRESS for VE$VEID to VE0" /sbin/ifconfig $VZHOSTIF 0 echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/$VZHOSTIF/proxy_arp echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/$VZHOSTIF/forwarding /sbin/ip route add $VETH_IP_ADDRESS dev $VZHOSTIF else echo "found no VETH_IP_ADDRESS in $VZCONFDIR/conf/$VEID.conf!" exit 1; fi exit with this little script one is finaly able to just apply changes to the VE's config file by adding a VETH_IP_ADDRESS variable including the desired IP Address, the rest is done by the script. I decided to not include the sysctl / proc settings for forwarding and proxy arp into this script since I prefere the /etc/networks/ interfaces way. e.g. auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 10.1.1.0 broadcast 10.1.1.255 gateway 10.215.1.254 dns-nameservers 10.215.1.20 dns-search prod.your.domain up sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.eth0.proxy_arp=1 up sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.eth0.forwarding=1 Hope this helps someone ;-) Nils Domrose