[Fedora-xen] help w/ xen & fc5 - unable to access network w/ dom0

[Cameron Moore]

Sorry, I wasn't very clear on this.  Network is fine without Xen.  I
just use the HWADDR directive in my ifcfg-eth* files to fix the NIC
ordering problem.  The problems I described deal primarily with Xen.

* dan.metcalf at wbisp.com (Dan Metcalf) [2006.08.02 14:47]:
> It is interesting that you have no luck w/ turning off a NIC in the BIOS, as
> that is what I did, it works fine w/o xen, but as soon as I go into xen ,
> nothing
> 
> Did you just re-enable the NIC or do a re-install after enabling the 2nd
> nic?
> 
> Thanks
> Dan
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-xen-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-xen-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Cameron Moore
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 3:05 PM
> To: fedora-xen at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] help w/ xen & fc5 - unable to access network w/
> dom0
> 
> Sort of.  I'm currently using a custom network-bridge-dell script in
> /etc/xen/scripts/ that looks something like this (the following was sent
> to me by Dirk Allaert from the Dell linux-poweredge list):
> 
> =BEGIN
> #!/bin/bash
> # Exit if anything goes wrong.
> set -e
> 
> # First arg is the operation.
> OP=$1
> shift
> 
> script=/etc/xen/scripts/network-bridge
> 
> case ${OP} in
>   start)
>         $script start vifnum=1 bridge=LAN netdev=eth0
>         $script start vifnum=0 bridge=DMZ netdev=eth1
>         brctl delif LAN vif0.1
>         brctl delif DMZ vif0.0
>         brctl addif LAN vif0.0
>         brctl addif DMZ vif0.1
>         ;;
> 
>     stop)
>         $script stop vifnum=0 bridge=LAN netdev=eth0
>         $script stop vifnum=1 bridge=DMZ netdev=eth1
>         ;;
>     status)
>         $script status vifnum=0 bridge=LAN netdev=eth0
>         $script status vifnum=1 bridge=DMZ netdev=eth1
>         ;;
> 
>     *)
>        echo 'Unknown command: ' ${OP}
>        echo 'Valid commands are: start, stop, status'
>        exit 1
> esac
> =END
> 
> I then add "(network-script network-bridge-dell)" in my xend-config.sxp
> file.
> 
> I haven't been able to figure out exactly why the default network-bridge
> script doesn't work.  I've tried all kinds of tricks
> (ifcfg-eth*/udev/ifrename/name_eths) to make the default Xen scripts
> work, but I've made no progress.  What's odd is that if I disable one of
> the NICs in the BIOS, I can't get anything to work with Xen (not even
> the network-bridge/brctl tricks).
> 
> * dan.metcalf at wbisp.com (Dan Metcalf) [2006.08.02 13:16]:
> > Did you ever get xen working on the 2950?
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fedora-xen-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-xen-bounces at redhat.com]
> > On Behalf Of Cameron Moore
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 2:09 PM
> > To: fedora-xen at redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] help w/ xen & fc5 - unable to access network w/
> > dom0
> > 
> > * dan.metcalf at wbisp.com (Dan Metcalf) [2006.08.02 12:17]:
> > >  I have a straight install of FC5 & xen, xen starts but does not allow
> > >  network access, if I run network-bridge stop, I can ping/access
> network?
> > > 
> > >  Any ideas? I have tried setting the interface to onboot=no, but that
> did
> > >  not help
> > 
> > What kind of hardware are you on?  I've had similar issues with the new
> > Dell server line[1].
> > 
> > [1]
> http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2006-July/026591.html
> > -- 
> > Cameron Moore
> > [ Reason #73 why I can't sleep at night:  0.999999999.. = 1 ]
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