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Re: [Xen-devel] network dropouts

To: Jan Kundrát <jan.kundrat@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] network dropouts
From: Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:04:36 +0000
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> So, network availability drops out even without unprivileged domains. 
> I'm using default xen configuration, machines are on the same subnet 
> (10.8.6.61 and 10.18.6.60), connected by switch.
> 
> Does it matter that Gentoo (in current stable version) uses `ifconfig` 
> and `route` to setup networking and /etc/xen/scripts/network uses 
> iproute2 package? It shouldn't, AFAIK.
> 
> One thing that I don't understand is that `ifconfig` shows that eth0 
> holds its IP address even after xen-br0 has been brought up (and xen-br0 
> has /32 netmask...):
> (lo removed from output)

Are you using DHCP to set the eth0 address? I wander if the drop
outs occur when the lease expires. Have you tried getting
dhclient/dhcpcd to set the address for xen-br0 rather than eth0?

Ian 


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