From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Kundr=E1t?= Subject: Re: network dropouts Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:27:52 +0100 Message-ID: <41BECE38.2030804@fzu.cz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Ian Pratt Cc: xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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. -- cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/