Re: Implementation specific Interface-ID

[Aleksi Suhonen <Aleksi.Suhonen at tut.fi>]

Vijayrajan ranganathan wrote:
> I did consider using vlans but this requires huge changes in existing network
> topology and switch-side re-configurations.

> Is there a standard solution for this kind of problem?

One often used solution is that either the host OS or another virtual OS 
functions as a router between all the virtual OSes and the outside world.

Another solution is that some virtualization platforms (at least vmware 
and xen afaik) offer unique generated MAC addresses to each virtual OS, 
so the standard EUI-64 method will yield unique IIDs.

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	Aleksi Suhonen, Research Assistant
	Department of Communications Engineering
	Tampere University of Technology