On Wed, May 26, 2010 18:34, compdoc wrote: > are other ways to do things. But I found bridges to be the best\ > way to go for attaching to the lan or wan, and virtual nets are > great for guest-to-guest, or guest-to-server communication. > > A bridge lets several guests share one nic, but they can also be > used to assign one guest to one nic. There is no magic involved, > however - if you have too many guests sharing one network card, > you're going to develop a bottleneck. Thank you. I have configured a bridge on that server and assigned eth0 to it. This a desktop development machine begin used to show a proof of concept so adding another NIC is a frill that will not be contemplated. I am presently installing another guest that is using the eth0 directly. I will see how that goes with respect to network connectivity. Can anyone explain to me the significance of tunctl and its relation to virtual machines. It seems quite important from what I have read but tactual documentation on what it is and why or when or how you should use it is a bit sparse. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3