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[Liu Wenmao <marvelliu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rosen:

I want to implement a virutal IPS(intrusion protection system) on L2 layer,
so the input interface and the output interface should be on the same
network.

Now I manually modify the packet vlan using OpenFlow protocol at the two
NICs, so that the loop won't happen.


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Aaron Rosen <arosen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I still don't see why you want to have two nics on the same L2?  We don't
> allow this because we don't want  to allow a tenants to bridge them
> creating a loop in the network.
>
> Aaron
>
>
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Liu Wenmao <marvelliu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hello:
>>
>> I have a network with a subnet, I want create a VM with one NIC connected
>> with this subnet, with one or two extra NIC left, because I want to do some
>> more things such as intrusion protection
>>
>> I wonder is it possible to create a VM with more NICs than its connected
>> network?
>>
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