Fixed some typos and slight language improvements

[pve-docs.git] / pve-network.adoc

diff --git a/pve-network.adoc b/pve-network.adoc
index 198f2d1681b4888a6d4a81bb76a37e6ba6b3aeb9..9e0c439c2fba62df099a0830d7614b2897a08344 100644 (file)
--- a/pve-network.adoc
+++ b/pve-network.adoc
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ virtual networks.
 Default Configuration using a Bridge
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
+[thumbnail="default-network-setup-bridge.svg"]
 Bridges are like physical network switches implemented in software.
 All VMs can share a single bridge, or you can create multiple bridges to 
 separate network domains. Each host can have up to 4094 bridges.
@@ -138,7 +139,7 @@ Most hosting providers do not support the above setup. For security
 reasons, they disable networking as soon as they detect multiple MAC
 addresses on a single interface.
 
-TIP: Some providers allows you to register additional MACs on there
+TIP: Some providers allows you to register additional MACs on their
 management interface. This avoids the problem, but is clumsy to
 configure because you need to register a MAC for each of your VMs.
 
@@ -146,6 +147,7 @@ You can avoid the problem by ``routing'' all traffic via a single
 interface. This makes sure that all network packets use the same MAC
 address.
 
+[thumbnail="default-network-setup-routed.svg"]
 A common scenario is that you have a public IP (assume `198.51.100.5`
 for this example), and an additional IP block for your VMs
 (`203.0.113.16/29`). We recommend the following setup for such
@@ -314,6 +316,7 @@ iface vmbr0 inet static
 ----
 
 
+[thumbnail="default-network-setup-bond.svg"]
 Another possibility it to use the bond directly as bridge port.
 This can be used to make the guest network fault-tolerant.
 
@@ -399,12 +402,8 @@ abstraction layers between itself and the physical NIC.
 For example, in a default configuration where you want to place
 the host management address on a separate VLAN.
 
-NOTE: In the examples we use the VLAN at bridge level to ensure the correct
-function of VLAN 5 in the guest network, but in combination with VLAN anwareness
-bridge this it will not work for guest network VLAN 5.
-The downside of this setup is more CPU usage.
 
-.Example: Use VLAN 5 for the {pve} management IP
+.Example: Use VLAN 5 for the {pve} management IP with traditional Linux bridge
 ----
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
@@ -430,10 +429,32 @@ iface vmbr0 inet manual
 
 ----
 
+.Example: Use VLAN 5 for the {pve} management IP with VLAN aware Linux bridge
+----
+auto lo
+iface lo inet loopback
+
+iface eno1 inet manual
+
+
+auto vmbr0.5
+iface vmbr0.5 inet static
+        address  10.10.10.2
+        netmask  255.255.255.0
+        gateway  10.10.10.1
+
+auto vmbr0
+iface vmbr0 inet manual
+        bridge_ports eno1
+        bridge_stp off
+        bridge_fd 0
+        bridge_vlan_aware yes
+----
+
 The next example is the same setup but a bond is used to
 make this network fail-safe.
 
-.Example: Use VLAN 5 with bond0 for the {pve} management IP
+.Example: Use VLAN 5 with bond0 for the {pve} management IP with traditional Linux bridge
 ----
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback