Re: [Xen-users] dom0 networking disabled

[jez <jez@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 07:02:27AM -0500, Kirk Brown wrote:
> Hi jez, thanks for the advice - it worked perfectly. To clarify for others
> having the same problem - I was using the xen bridge script which would
> kill the networking for Dom0, but work with the DomU's. The fix was to
> *not* use xen's bridging.
> 
> My original /etc/network/interfaces looked like this:
> 
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
>         address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
>         netmask 255.255.255.0
>         gateway XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
> 
> and in the xend-config, I had:
> (network-script network-bridge)
> 
> 
> The fix was to set up the bridge directly in /etc/network/interfaces by
> changing eth0 to:
> 
> auto xenbr0
> iface xenbr0 inet static
>         address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
>         netmask 255.255.255.0
>         gateway XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
>         bridge_ports eth0
> 
> and use the network-dummy in xend-config:
> (network-script network-dummy)
> 
> Reboot and everything comes up OK.
> 

Excellent!

Just wanted to add that Tim Post makes some good suggestions elsewhere
on this thread about other parameters you might want to add to your 
bridge configuration. There's a short explaination of each of these,
and a few others, in /usr/share/doc/bridge-utils/README.Debian.gz.

jez

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