RE: [Xen-devel] help with bugs

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > I'd like to appeal for some help tracking down a couple of 
> bugs that 
> > we're struggling to reproduce:
> > 
> >  BUG62  eth0 -> veth0 in network script can loose network
> 
> I think the only sane way to fix this is to let the 
> distribution tools configure the network.  Thats a bit harder 
> to set up, but works more reliable.  

Yep, having the distro scripts do it always preferable. However, we do
need something that people can use in the interim. 

I guess people would still want the distro scripts to be able to cope
with enabling/disabling xen networking at run time rather than just
configuring it once at boot. 

> Also the "if{up|down} 
> <interface>" commands and the like will work as usual then.  
> Especially in case eth0 is configured via dhcp the ip address 
> copying is a bad idea.  Unfortunaly it isn't very good 
> documented how all this works, especially the new veth0 thing.

I'd be inclined to rename the physical interface to pethN, and create
veth0 as eth0. I think this should solve the DHCP issue.

> IMHO it would be good if the network start script checks 
> whenever any bridges are already present in the system and 
> don't touch the network setup if that is the case.  That 
> should catch both network setup being already done by the 
> distro start scripts or by an earlier network setup script 
> run (when xend is restarted).

I believe (hope?) it already copes wih xend restart.
If you're using distro or other scripts then you can disable it from
xend-config.sxp.

> The setup I'm running looks like this (classic 2.x setup, no 
> veth0/vid0.0 used), in boot.local:
> 
>       ip link set eth0 name hw-eth0
>       brctl addbr eth0
>       brctl addif eth0 hw-eth0
>       ip link set hw-eth0 up
>       ip link set eth0 up
> 
> Then let the network scripts setup eth0 (now a bridge) as 
> usual and tell xend that "eth0" is the bridge device it 
> should add the vif interfaces to.

So you don't use veth0? This is dangerous if you run services in dom0
that are being used by the domUs.

Ian

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