Re: network dropouts

["Jan Kundrát" <jan.kundrat@fzu.cz>]

Ian Pratt wrote:
>>So, network availability drops out even without unprivileged domains. 
>>I'm using default xen configuration, machines are on the same subnet 
>>(10.8.6.61 and 10.18.6.60), connected by switch.
>>
>>Does it matter that Gentoo (in current stable version) uses `ifconfig` 
>>and `route` to setup networking and /etc/xen/scripts/network uses 
>>iproute2 package? It shouldn't, AFAIK.
>>
>>One thing that I don't understand is that `ifconfig` shows that eth0 
>>holds its IP address even after xen-br0 has been brought up (and xen-br0 
>>has /32 netmask...):
>>(lo removed from output)
> 
> 
> Are you using DHCP to set the eth0 address? I wander if the drop
> outs occur when the lease expires. Have you tried getting
> dhclient/dhcpcd to set the address for xen-br0 rather than eth0?
> 
> Ian 

no, I'm setting it manually via `ifconfig` in init script. Notice the 
following lines in kernel log:

Dec 12 20:33:23 zirafa xen-br0: port 1(eth0) entering disabled state
Dec 12 20:34:23 zirafa xen-br0: port 1(eth0) entering learning state

Why is eth0 (the only physical device in xen-br0) getting into disabled 
state?

j.

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