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RE: [Xen-devel] DomU stuck on "Sending DHCP request"

To: "Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh" <aravindh.puthiyaparambil@xxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] DomU stuck on "Sending DHCP request"
From: "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 23:31:33 +0100
Cc: "Koren, Bradley J" <Bradley.Koren@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Subrahmanian, Raj" <raj.subrahmanian@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Vessey, Bruce A" <Bruce.Vessey@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> I am trying to bring a DomU with networking on x86_64 Xen on 
> a Dell PowerEdge 470 (2x 2GB RAM SLES9 SP2). The DomU is 
> stuck on "Sending DHCP requests". If I turn off networking I 
> am able to bring up DomUs. DHCP is working on the subnet 
> otherwise. Any idea why this is happening?

You could run 'tcpdump -I vifX.0' in dom0 on the appropriate vif to see
if packets are coming out.

ifconfig will give you some packet counts too.

Best,
Ian


> xen_net: Initialising virtual ethernet driver.
> xen_net: Using grant tables.
> md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
> NET: Registered protocol family 2
> IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 16Kbytes TCP 
> established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 6, 262144 
> bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) 
> Initializing IPsec netlink socket
> NET: Registered protocol family 1
> NET: Registered protocol family 17
> => Sending DHCP requests ......
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