[Lxc-users] 10GbE Interface

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 03/14/2011 05:23 PM, Mayur Gowda wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>                          I plan to use a 10GbE network interface on a PC
> running ubuntu and want to pump traffic between 2 LXC containers close to
> 10gig. Previous old posts indicate that bridging between containers with
> VETH for 10GbE has limited performance and higher loss, is it true???
> Mac-vlan has better performance at 10gig but how do I use to communicate
> between multiple containers??

Hi Mayur,

I think you can try with macvlan, yes.
Make sure in your configuration you specify lxc.network.macvlan.mode = 
bridge for both containers.

Let us know about the results

Thanks
   -- Daniel