what is VIRTUAL ETHERNET??

[Former Member]

Dear All,

what is the concept of virtual ethernet??

pls advise me.

Regards,

Ankita

Edited by: Ankita Kapoor on Jan 24, 2008 1:15 PM

[Former Member]

Hi Ankita,

Virtual ethernet device is an ethernet-like device which can be used inside a VE. Unlike venet network device, veth device has a MAC address. Due to this, it can be used in configurations, when veth is bridged to ethX or other device and VE user fully sets up his networking himself, including IPs, gateways etc.

Virtual ethernet device consist of two ethernet devices - one in VE0 and another one in VE. These devices are connected to each other, so if a packet goes to one device it will come out from the other device.

Regards,

Rohit

[Former Member]

Hello Rohit,

Can we implement multiple SAP application servers via virtual ethernet config. like IS Retail DEv , IS REtail QAS, POS , EP and BW Dev in single server connected via this virtual ethernet config.

Entire Data will reside in one single STORAGE BOX.

Is this kind of architecture suitable for SAP implementation??

Regards,

Ankita

Edited by: Ankita Kapoor on Jan 24, 2008 1:16 PM

[Former Member]

HI,

A virtual ethernet interface is a pseudo device that can be used as clone ethernet device. It will respond to ethernet packages for another IP address than the normal address for the machine. Thus you can have several IP addresses for a single ethernet interface.

regards,

kaushal