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Re: [Xen-users] Has anyone successfully set up a dhcp/iptables fire

To: "Gareth Bult" <gareth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Has anyone successfully set up a dhcp/iptables firewall in dom0 NATing traffic from domU?
From: "Juergen Schinker" <ba1020@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:42:55 -0000 (UTC)
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> Hi,
>
> For what it's worth I've come to the conclusion that the best policy is to
> run *nothing* in the Dom0 above and beyond what you absolutely need. In my
> case, no iptables whatsoever and nothing listening on a public interface
> save ssh which is protected by hosts allow.
> (then run everything else on a second/private eth)
>
maybe but most people use a host with iptables and migrating all services
to DomU is hard so easiest way seams to me to solve the bug and not get
all users to do an workaroaund

i never had an lockout...kernel 2.6.20-xen-r6 Xen3.1 bridging mode


> There appears to be a rather nasty bug somewhere in the IP stack, I'm
> thinking it's in conntrak with regards to bridging with Xen in Dom0's,
> which ultimately causes lots of problems including machine lockouts.
>
> Since scrapping iptables I've not had a single lockup. (across 6 machines
> and 18 DomU's)
> [I'm working with kernels 2.6.2x]
>
> hth
> Gareth.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> step 3.: "Juergen Schinker" <ba1020@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: 12 February 2008 11:47:20 o'clock (GMT) Europe/London
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Has anyone successfully set up a dhcp/iptables
>   firewall in dom0 NATing traffic from domU?
>
>> I've been struggling with this problem for a few days now perhaps
> someone here has had experience with this problem already.  I am trying
> to set up a rack server lke this:
>>
>> dom0: iptables/dhcp
>> dom1: LAMP server
>> dom2: MAIL server
>> dom3: VNC vm for graphical admin and web tools
>>
>> Dom0 has one physical interface eth0 which receives a static ip, i have
> also set up a bridge called br0 that i have bound dnsmasq to in order to
> dole out ips to the domU's.  The domU's are assigned a mac address and
> once they boot dhclient requests an ip over 192.168.0.1 which works
> well.  Once the domU has booted I can ping the other domU's by ip and
> the br0 itself at 192.168.0.1 as well as accessing all the servers in
> the domUs in my internal network.  I.e. I can hit the webserver in dom1
> from dom3.  I can also ping external sites by domain name like
> google.com.  Unfortunately that is about all I can do.  I cannot access
> any other form of net traffic from inside the domU, i.e I cannot access
> the web or rsync.  My question is basically, is this a problem with Xen
> networking or is it a problem with
>> iptables?  Both?
>>
>>  - Rich
>>
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> Yes here http://homie.homelinux.net/wordpress/?p=11
>
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