[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Odd Bridging Quirk
> Chris Babcock wrote: >> I am seeing an odd bridging quirk, on my domU instances. >> >> When any of my domU's start, they cannot receive any traffic until they >> have sent at least a few packets. Time seems to have no effect on this >> behavior. If I let an idle domU sit for an hour, it still fails to >> receive, if it has not originated any traffic. >> >> My workaround for the moment, is an added rc-init script that pings the >> default gateway a few times when the domain first comes up. >> >> Is this normal? Should there be a warning in the docs, if it is? If >> not, >> does anybody have any ideas what may be causing this? > > I think I remember having this same problem when I set up networking > with Xen. How are your domains getting their network addresses? I The domains are being assigned their address in the debian startup sequence from /etc/network/interfaces inside the domU instance. > think the problem may have had something to do with ARP not being > correctly set up between the bridge, the DomU's, and the network, such > that a domain needed to send some packets out before it was known to > have a given address. > > - Josh Triplett > _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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