Hello everyone,
I'm trying to get multiple guests to connect their networks
to the Xen network bridge xenbr0 that’s tied to two bonded interfaces.
My current dom0 network looks like this:
(eth0 + eth1) => bond0 -> pbond0 -> xenbr0
eth0 and eth1 are bonding under Red Hat EL5, and Xen is
configured to use bond0 as the main network device. Xend-config is set to
use the network-bridge script with netdev=bond0.
The problem I'm having is that I can't run more than one
guest on xenbr0. Right now, I have one guest attached to xenbr0 and it
works fine. If I yank out either cable on eth0 or eth1, it keeps
going. If I startup any other guests, there is intermittent network
problems and strange ssh connection failures. For example, one ssh client
won't connect while another one can.
If I create another bridge from a single NIC via the same
network-bridge script, like:
eth2 -> peth2 -> xenbr2
Multiple guests can connect fine using xenbr2.
I tried using the network-bridge-bonding script with bond0,
but while it created pbond0, it never created the xenbr0 bridge for the guests
to connect.
Either I need to use the bonding script with additional
parameters or steps to get the xenbr0 up, or there's something wrong with the
present setup.
Ideas, anyone?
Many thanks in advance,
...adam
