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Mac address allocation to virtual interfaces [message #36887]

Mon, 27 July 2009 14:36

siraj
Messages: 6
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi

In an experiment i need to assign contiguous MAC addresses to
openvz containers
e.g container 401 eth0: aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:01
container 402 eth0:aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:02

According to vzctl documentation available at

http://openvz.org/documentation/mans/vzctl.8

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"
--veth_add dev_name,dev_addr,dev_name_ve,dev_addr_ve
Adds virtual ethernet device to a given VE. Here dev_name is an Ethernet device name in host system, dev_addr is its MAC address, dev_name_ve is an Ethernet device name in VE, and dev_addr_ve is its MAC address. MAC addresses must be entered in XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX format. Note that this option is incremental, so devices are added to already existing ones. "
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i used it accordingly
root@sirajhn# vzctl set 401 --veth_add veth401.0 aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:a0 eth0 aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:01

Output: Bad Parameter for --veth_add:veth401.2

i am using "2.6.18-14-ovz-amd64-smp" version of openvz. Host
machine is running ubuntu 8.04 server. Can some one kindly
explain the reason of this error.

Regards
Siraj

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