From 0500f140bf41a9c244f94e17ab74437d95de080d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Hanreich Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 10:07:33 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] network: update specification for bridge names MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Reviewed-by: Fabian Grünbichler Signed-off-by: Stefan Hanreich --- pve-network.adoc | 14 ++++++++------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/pve-network.adoc b/pve-network.adoc index d1ec64b..ef586ec 100644 --- a/pve-network.adoc +++ b/pve-network.adoc @@ -13,11 +13,11 @@ page contains the complete format description. All {pve} tools try hard to keep direct user modifications, but using the GUI is still preferable, because it protects you from errors. -A 'vmbr' interface is needed to connect guests to the underlying physical -network. They are a Linux bridge which can be thought of as a virtual switch -to which the guests and physical interfaces are connected to. This section -provides some examples on how the network can be set up to accomodate different -use cases like redundancy with a xref:sysadmin_network_bond['bond'], +A Linux bridge interface (commonly called 'vmbrX') is needed to connect guests +to the underlying physical network. It can be thought of as a virtual switch +which the guests and physical interfaces are connected to. This section provides +some examples on how the network can be set up to accomodate different use cases +like redundancy with a xref:sysadmin_network_bond['bond'], xref:sysadmin_network_vlan['vlans'] or xref:sysadmin_network_routed['routed'] and xref:sysadmin_network_masquerading['NAT'] setups. @@ -75,7 +75,9 @@ We currently use the following naming conventions for device names: scheme is used for {pve} hosts which were installed before the 5.0 release. When upgrading to 5.0, the names are kept as-is. -* Bridge names: `vmbr[N]`, where 0 ≤ N ≤ 4094 (`vmbr0` - `vmbr4094`) +* Bridge names: Commonly `vmbr[N]`, where 0 ≤ N ≤ 4094 (`vmbr0` - `vmbr4094`), +but you can use any alphanumeric string that starts with a character and is at +most 10 characters long. * Bonds: `bond[N]`, where 0 ≤ N (`bond0`, `bond1`, ...)