[Fedora-xen] FC5 domU network connectivity

dgreen at CLEMSON.EDU dgreen at CLEMSON.EDU
Fri Jul 14 02:09:44 UTC 2006


Trying to set up my domUs with network connectivity.  I am running FC5 on
dom0 and FC5 on my two domUs.

My dom0 has a static eth0 and I run the 'network bridge' and 'vif bridge'
in the script at startup.  My ifconfig shows (edited for length...):

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:81:5D:B1:70
          inet addr:130.127.XX.XXX  Bcast:130.127.XX.XXX  Mask:255.255.254.0

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

peth0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
          inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link

vif0.0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
          inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link

vif1.0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
          inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link

vif2.0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
          inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link

xenbr0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
          inet6 addr: fe80::200:ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link

Questions/Comments:

1) How would I set up my bridge to give out automatic DHCP info to the
domUs?  Do I have to run DHCP services on dom0?
2) I would like to keep my 130.127 address on eth0 so I can still connect
to the network, can this still be done and give private 192.168.12.X
addresses to my domUs?

Thanks for any help you can give.

Vince




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