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Docker Networking Cookbook
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Docker Networking Cookbook

by Jon Langemak, Aditya Amar
November 2016
Intermediate to advanced
378 pages
8h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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Making connections

Up until this point, we've focused on physical cables to make connections between interfaces. But how would we connect two interfaces that didn't have physical interfaces? For this purpose, Linux networking has an internal interface type called Virtual Ethernet (VETH) pairs. VETH interfaces are always created in pairs making them act like a sort of virtual patch cable. VETH interfaces can also have IP addresses assigned to them, which allow them to participate in a layer 3 routing path. In this recipe, we'll examine how to define and implement VETH pairs by building off the lab topology we've used in previous recipes.

Getting ready

In order to view and manipulate networking settings, you'll want to ensure that you have the iproute2 ...

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