Re: help with bugs

[Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>]

Gerd Knorr wrote:
>>I'd be inclined to rename the physical interface to pethN, and create
>>veth0 as eth0. I think this should solve the DHCP issue.
> 
> 
> Hmm, just an idea, not sure how well that would work in
> practice, maybe the network script should not even attempt to
> copy the ip addresses, but instead use ifup and ifdown, i.e.
> something like this:
> 
> 	ifdown eth0
> 	ip link set eth0 name peth0
> 	ip link set veth0 name eth0
> 	brctl addbr xen-br0
> 	brctl addif xen-br0 peth0
> 	brctl addif xen-br0 vif0.0
> 	ip link set peth0 up
> 	ip link set vif0.0 up
> 	ip link set xen-br0 up
> 	ifup eth0

Unfortunately, we might not be able to do this (we do not
want to force a rename of the physical device). Looking into
this...

thanks,
Nivedita

> At least suse, fedora and debian have ifup and ifdown to control
> interfaces, not sure about others ...
> 
> 
>>So you don't use veth0?
> 
> 
> No.  Partly because it's not entriely clear to me how the setup
> should look like (hope I got it right above), partly because the
> same setup works for both xen2 and xen3 then.  And, no, I don't
> run services for the domUs on dom0 ...
> 
>   Gerd
>