Chapter 5. NETWORKING
So you've got your nice, shiny Xen box all set up and running, and now you want it to talk to the outside world. This seems eminently reasonable. After all, Xen's primary use is server consolidation—and a non-networked server is a contradiction in terms. Well, you're in luck. Xen has a robust and well-tested network foundation, which is versatile and easy to set up.
Like much of the rest of Xen, the networking infrastructure reuses as many standard tools as possible. In this case, Xen uses the standard bridge utilities and the ip command[33] all glued together with some clever bash and Python scripts to handle traffic between ...
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