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Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 3.2 bridging broken

To: deshantm@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 3.2 bridging broken
From: pak333@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:05:55 +0000
Cc: Todd Deshane <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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THANK YOU Todd, it worked. I am so happy after struggling with this for so many days.
 
 
Regards
-Prabha
 
 
-------------- Original message --------------
From: "Todd Deshane" <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx>

> Hi,
>
> On Feb 13, 2008 12:41 AM, wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I have 3 nics, 1 onboard nic and 2 other add-in cards. I want to use VT-d to
> > hide the add-in nics.
> >
> > When I boot into Xen, i only see eth0 (the onboard nic).
> > The other two nics are hidden from dom0. -------- Great so far....
> >
> > Now I start xend and behold, it creates xenbr1 and xenbr2. I do NOT want
> > those to be created. In fact I removed the (network-script network-bridge)
> > from xend-config.sxp also. but the bridges get created.
> > How do I delete them?
> >
> > brctl shows
> >
> > bridge name bridge id STPenabled
> > interfaces
> > xenbr0 8000.000000000000 no
> > xenbr1 8000.000000000000 no
> > xenbr2 8000.000000000000 no
> >
> > if i do "brctl delbr xenbr1"
> > >xenbr1 is still up: can't delete it.
> > and ifdown xenbr1
> > > ifdown
> >
>
>
> ip link set xenbr1 down
> brctl delbr xenbr
>
>
> > So basically i can't get rid of xenbr1 and xenbr2. ( never needed them in
> > the first place). and it appears that xenbr1 and xenbr2 are tied to the two
> > add-in nics and hence the guest cannot use those nics.
> >
> > Questions: Is there a simple way to tell Xend NOT to create any bridges? It
> > is picking the interfaces from somewhere?
> >
>
>
> check in ifconfig -a. I have seen in some cases that the hiding
> doesn't se em to be fully working.
>
>
> Regards,
> Todd
>
>
>
>
> > Thanks in advance for your help
> > -Prabha
> >
> >
> >
> >
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