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Yes, I understand you can do this without causing a loop. Why not use the
same interface to send and receive traffic?


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Liu Wenmao <marvelliu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Rosen:
>
> I want to implement a virutal IPS(intrusion protection system) on L2
> layer, so the input interface and the output interface should be on the
> same network.
>
> Now I manually modify the packet vlan using OpenFlow protocol at the two
> NICs, so that the loop won't happen.
>
>
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Aaron Rosen <arosen at nicira.com> wrote:
>
>> I still don't see why you want to have two nics on the same L2?  We don't
>> allow this because we don't want  to allow a tenants to bridge them
>> creating a loop in the network.
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Liu Wenmao <marvelliu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello:
>>>
>>> I have a network with a subnet, I want create a VM with one NIC
>>> connected with this subnet, with one or two extra NIC left, because I want
>>> to do some more things such as intrusion protection
>>>
>>> I wonder is it possible to create a VM with more NICs than its connected
>>> network?
>>>
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