[pve-devel] implementation of a dhcp service in proxmox ?

[Dietmar Maurer]

> I think we need 1 ip for the dhcp server, for each range. (1 range by bridge-vlan
> ?).
> 
> So do we need to assign 1 ip to each bridge ? (including vmbrXvX)
> 
> I would like to have 1 dhcp server by proxmox host to manage dhcp for local vm
> only, so do I need 1 ip for dhcp server by bridge by host ?.
> 
> I don't known if we can use a "internal" ip by bridge and reuse it on each host ?

Why dos a dhcp server needs an IP (dhcp is layer 2)?

> openstack seem to create a new tap with an ip for the dhcp server plugged to
> bridge.
> (http://techbackground.blogspot.fr/2013/05/debugging-quantum-dhcp-and-
> open-vswitch.html)
> 
> 
> NAT network
> -----------
> For Nat, I think we only need static ip configuration for each vm nic.
> 
> 
> Seem that currently proxmox use netdev, so userland.
> qemu documentation seem to say that performance are lower than tap. (lot of
> overhead) http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Networking.
> 
> Advantage of netdev is that we can use an dhcp server embbeded in qemu ex : -
> netdev user,id=mynet0,net=192.168.76.0/24,dhcpstart=192.168.76.9
> 
> If we use tap, can the dhcp listen directly to the tap interface ? What is the dhcp
> server ip in this case ?

The plan is to replace that using a tap device (as described in http://tjworld.net/wiki/Linux/KvmQemuEasyRoutedNetwork)

> 
> 
> Routed network
> --------------
> Don't have played with routed network yet, but interesting article here:
> http://tjworld.net/wiki/Linux/KvmQemuEasyRoutedNetwork