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Wednesday, April 8, 2015

OpenContrail vhost0 and pkt0

vhost0 is a virtual interface that is provided to the host OS; This is similar to when bridging is enabled in the linux kernel and a virtual "br0" interface is created. The physical interface is controlled by the vrouter kernel module and vhost0 is an interface that allows the host OS to access the network.

pkt0 is an interface created to deliver packets and packet headers between the vrouter and its user space agent. In normal operation, when security-groups or network policy is in use, packet headers are sent to the agent for the agent to apply ACLs. There are also several classes of packets that are delivered to the agent: ARP, DHCP, metadata-proxy, ...





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