[gentoo-user] KVM networking help

[Nilesh Govindrajan]

Hi,

I need some help settling up networking with KVM machines.

I have one public interface with four publicly accessible IPs.

I want to run a private virtual network for the VMs, such that every VM can
access every other VM and host, also host can access every VM (required for
NAT).

So far I tried this:

Create two tap interfaces.
Add them to a bridge
Assign IP to bridge
Set different MACs for VMs' NICs.

This let's me access one VM to another also VM to host (not sure about
this, ping works).
But I'm not able to use host to VM (ping works), I'm not able to connect to
sshd running inside VM from host.