From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nivedita Singhvi Subject: Re: network dropouts Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 08:43:09 -0800 Message-ID: <41BF181D.7050901@us.ibm.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; 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: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Kundr=E1t?= , xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Ian Pratt wrote: >>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 It really should be renegotiating the lease before it expires, and you can probably track that in the logs or via a trace. thanks, Nivedita ------------------------------------------------------- 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/