From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Derrik Pates Subject: Re: xen 2.0.1, 2.4.27, 2.6.9, non-bridge Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 02:51:35 -0500 Message-ID: <41D65687.5010002@dsdk12.net> References: <41D63BDA.9030909@dsdk12.net> 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: Adam Heath Cc: "xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Adam Heath wrote: > Configuring a bridge is a multi-step process. At one point during the > process, normal communication is severed over eth0, while the bridge itself is > not yet fully functional. > > At this point, the root filesystem is no longer available, and the machine > falls over. Okay, I see what you're doing. I think. Though I don't understand why it is that you'd be setting up a bridge in an unprivileged domain - once you're to the point of booting an unprivileged domain, the bridge setup should already be long done on the domain 0 side. > I'd prefer to not do it with an initrd, as that's an added step, and extra > complexity. If you're doing something that requires that level of network reconfiguration while being booted via NFS root, that may be the only way to do it. > Yeah, I've hacked the script. As I said, it's doing a /32 netmask, and a host > route over the vifX.X interface. If I turn off proxy_arp(but leave > ip_forwarding turned on), I can ping the hard-coded ip address(of the new > xenU) from dom0. It's not until I enable proxy_arp that it falls over. I've used proxy ARP on Linux before (not with Xen specifically), so I'd say excluding a case where you're hitting a major bug, I'd have to see what commands you're running to set up the proxy ARP. This doesn't sound right to me. It shouldn't affect the ability of the system doing the proxy ARP to resolve the target IP address to the target MAC. -- Derrik Pates dpates@dsdk12.net ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt