[Xen-users] DHCP and DomUs: not working

[Kai Schaetzl <maillists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm trying to get DHCP working with DomU clients. I don't want to use 
libvirtd. There's a dhcpd on the machine and it works fine for all clients 
in the network, but not for DomUs. If I set a static IP on the DomU all 
networking for them is fine, so there's no general networking problem.

I use the xen 3.2 packages for CentOS on CentOS 5.1.

There was a public IP address on eth0 and a private IP address on eth0:0. 
I changed that around after I discovered with tcpdump that dhcpd was 
replying on eth0 like publicip.bootps -> privateip.bootpc. This isn't a 
problem for all other packets, but apparently for DHCP.

Bridging is setup with the standard Xen 3.2 network-bridge script by xend 
like this:

bridge name     bridge id               STP enabled     interfaces
eth0            8000.000c6e101f84       no              vif3.0
                                                        vif2.0
                                                        vif1.0
                                                        peth0

Once I had the private IP address on eth0 and not on the alias anymore 
DHCP started working on DomUs. However, I had to discover it worked only 
for this first bootup and not later on. The DomU starts up, gets an IP 
assigned and is happy. However, when it comes to renew the lease it hits 
the same problem as before. There's first DHCPREQUEST, no answer, then 
DHCPDISCOVER, no answer, it eventually falls back to pinging the gateway 
(which works) and then stops. Eventually it drops it's own IP.
Sometimes it starts working after a reboot of the host, sometimes not.
Actually, there's not "no answer", it's just that the reply doesn't make 
it to the DomU. tcpdump shows the reply on peth0, but not on eth0. Here's 
an example from peth0:

15:59:41.964744 IP (tos 0x10, ttl  16, id 0, offset 0, flags [none], 
proto: UDP (17), length: 328) 0.0.0.0.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps: 
BOOTP/DHCP, Request from 00:16:3e:43:17:01 (oui Unknown), length: 300, 
xid:0x4e682b4f, secs:50, flags: [none] (0x0000)
          Client Ethernet Address: 00:16:3e:43:17:01 (oui Unknown) 
[|bootp]
15:59:41.965540 IP (tos 0x10, ttl  16, id 0, offset 0, flags [none], 
proto: UDP (17), length: 328) mambo.bolera.lan.bootps > 
192.168.1.149.bootpc: BOOTP/DHCP, Reply, length: 300, xid:0x4e682b4f, 
secs:50, flags: [none] (0x0000)
          Your IP: 192.168.1.149
          Client Ethernet Address: 00:16:3e:43:17:01 (oui Unknown) 
[|bootp]
          
eth0 sees only the first packet. So, there is something necessary to make 
the DHCP packet travel from peth0 to eth0. I tried several routing and ip 
tables commands, nothing helps.

What is necessary to make DHCP in DomUs work?


Kai

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