Re: Networking problems with debian packages

[Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>]

Christian Wicke <xen.christian@safersignup.com> writes:

> Does anyone know what is the correct way to make this work?

The xen start script network setup doesn't work very good for me as
well.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, havn't figured yet
why.

I simply make eth0 a bridge early in the boot process, before the
network setup.  Hooking into /etc/init.d/boot.local works for me, see
below for the few script lines.  Then let the distribution start
scripts configure the eth0 device as usual.  Disable
/etc/xen/scripts/network (by inserting "exit" at line #2 for example),
so xend will not try to do the bridge setup again.  Configure your xen
domains to use eth0, i.e. "vif = [ 'bridge=eth0' ]".  Works fine for
me.

HTH,

  Gerd

# make eth0 a bridge
ip link set name hw-eth0 dev eth0
brctl addbr eth0
brctl addif eth0 hw-eth0
ip link set up hw-eth0

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