Re: [Xen-users] Fixed MAC address causes spurios network connect

To:	Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:	Re: [Xen-users] Fixed MAC address causes spurios network connectivityloss.
From:	George Styles <ripnetuk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Fri, 2 Sep 2005 18:01:28 +0100
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Hasnt fixed it...

i think
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2004-09/msg00114.html

is relavent

g


On 9/2/05, George Styles <ripnetuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thats very interesting, ive got a set of domUs that have flakey
> networking, all of which have a 'fixed' mac...
> 
> They just drop off the network, arp tells me the mac address is
> incomplete, from both domU and dom0
> 
> Sometimes they recover after a while
> 
> im gonna try letting Xen allocate macs and see how it goes
> 
> g
> 
> 
> On 9/2/05, Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > If I uncomment the "vif = " line in the configuration file
> > > the VM's network is rock solid, but I need a fixed MAC
> > > address because of the flex license manager that runs on the VM.
> >
> > Are you sure some other machine on your network isn't also using that
> > MAC?
> >
> > > I'm running Xen 2.0.6 with Debian Sarge in domain-0, various
> > > RedHat domUs.
> >
> > You may wish to upgrade to 2.0.7 or 2.0-testing anyhow.
> >
> > Ian
> >
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