[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] RE: [Xen-devel] nfsroot and brige
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Ian Pratt wrote: > > hello, > > it seems like a catch-22 to me. I boot xen0 with nfsroot, > > and then try to setup bridge stuff. something like this > > > > /sbin/brctl addbr xen-br0 > > /sbin/brctl addif xen-br0 eth0 > > /sbin/ifconfig xen-br0 10.0.10.103 netmask 255.255.255.0 up > > /sbin/ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 promisc up > > > > however, once I start it running it crashes down with error > > that nfs server is not available. > > > > does it mean that I must use initramfs to configure bridge > > first, or is there some other way? > > It really bugs me that there's no atomic way to configure a bridge and > transfer an IP address already active on another interface to it. I'm > not 100% convinced that the current behaviour is actually what the > bridge code author's intend: a the host can still transmit packet's with > an IP associated with an eth interface that is part of a bridge, it just > can't receive packets on that IP. I'd certainly appreciate it if someone > could ask the question on the bridge mailing list... > > The workarounds for using nfsroot in dom0 at the moment are: a) use a > ramfs to configure the bridge; b) use a routed rather than bridged > setup. > > I'm actually going off the whole idea of bridging rather than routeing > as the default... Actually, our setup here uses proxy_arp, which is close to bridging anyways. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
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