[xen-tools] Re: Traffic accouting with xen

[George Cherian]

 Hey,

 Really thanks for the quick response. I think this is a very neat idea. I have one question though: Will this be proper bridged networking? And are there any other ways to configure the networking for the domU. I have seen ioemu in many places. So what's the difference between ioemu and vif?

 Thanks a lot.

-George


On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 10:21:40PM +0000, Steve Kemp wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 03:46:42AM +0530, George Cherian wrote:
> 
> >  Is there some way to do traffic accounting in xen using the xen-tools.
> 
>   No.
> 
> > I couldn't find anything in the 'bin' directory related to traffic management.
> 
>   The obvious way to achieve this is to do traffic counting on the host system
>  via the "vif" interfaces which are created for the xen guest domains.
> 
>   Theres no reason why that shouldn't work, and I've done it successfully in
>  the past.
> 
>   To simplify things I like to make sure that the inferface names are
>  predictable.  So for example the guest domain named "foo.my.flat"
>  will have the interface name "vif-foo".
> 
>   You can do this by setting the configuration file to have
>  something like this:
> 
>    vif = ['ip=192.168.1.222, vifname=vif-foo']
> 
>   Then on the host name you can see the traffic via: ifconfig vif-foo:
> 
> vif-foo   Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF  
>           inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:1262100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:12285494 errors:0 dropped:1490 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
>           RX bytes:173826361 (165.7 MiB)  TX bytes:780228401 (744.0 MiB)
> 
>   I hope that helps ..
> 
> Steve
> -- 
> 
> > 
> >  Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > -George
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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> Steve
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