[Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

Laurent Léonard laurent at open-minds.org
Wed Oct 8 10:00:40 UTC 2008


Le mercredi 08 octobre 2008 11:43:59 Paul van der Vlis, vous avez écrit :
> I have a static configuration. This is wat I've tested:
>
> iface xenbr0 inet static
>        bridge_ports eth1
>        address 91.198.178.3
>        netmask 255.255.255.0
>        broadcast 91.198.178.255
>
> With xenbr0 and without eth1 I have no SSH anymore. This is not nice
> because it is a server in a datacenter. But I have also a bad working
> remote console. I see this error:
> xenbr0: ERROR while getting interface flags: Wrong device
>
> When I have an eth1 and I start xenbr0 I see this:
> ------
> Configuring network interfaces...[   18.279269] xenbr0: Dropping
> NETIF_F_UFO since no NETIF_F_HW_CSUM feature.
> Waiting for xenbr0 to get ready (MAXWAIT is 32 seconds).
> -------
> And the connection is gone too.
>

Did you installed the bridge-utils package ?

> > - /etc/init.d/networking restart
> > - Give me the output of ifconfig
> >
> > You probably used the xend network script "network-bridge" with Etch.
>
> Yes, I did. I have removed this line:
> (network-script 'network-bridge netdev=eth1')
> Do I need to remove both network-script and network-bridge?

I recommend you to use the "network-dummy" network script (default in Debian) 
with a static bridged configuration. 

-- 
Laurent Léonard



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