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[Sébastien Han <han.sebastien@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

If eth0 is connected to the public switch and if eth1 is connected to
the private switch you can enable the ipv4 forwarding on the compute
node. Thanks to this the VMs will have access to the outside world and
the packet will be routed from eth1 to eth0 :).

Cheers!

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Leander Bessa Beernaert
<leanderbb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a question regarding the use of two network interfaces. According to
> the official documentation, one of the interfaces is used for public access
> and the other for internal access (inter-vm communication). What i'd like to
> know is how does an instance connect to the outside world (internet access)?
> Is it done through the switch connected to the private interface or the
> public interface?
>
> --
> Cumprimentos / Regards,
> Leander
>
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