Demonstrating traffic between instances

Imagine a scenario where virtual machines in different networks exist on two different compute nodes, as demonstrated in the following diagram:

Traffic from the blue virtual machine instance on Compute A to the red virtual machine instance on Compute B will first be forwarded from the instance to its local gateway through the integration bridge and to the router namespace, as shown here:

Source MAC

Destination MAC

Source IP

Destination IP

Blue VM

Blue router interface

Blue VM

Red VM ...

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