Re: [Xen-users] Debian & eth0 vs. peth0

[Steven Timm <timm@xxxxxxxx>]

I don't have any Debian specific information but if I understand
it correctly, the naming of the bridges is more a functiion of
which major version of Xen you are running as opposed to a distro-specific
thing.  For instance, Redhat 5 which includes xen 3.1.2 disguised as xen 
3.0.3 also renames their physical device as peth0.   so it may not
be deb-specific at all, just that they are still running an older version
of xen.

Steve


On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Joshua Kinard wrote:

> It seems that with their specific Xen packages, Debian likes to go against the norm, and rather than calling the Xen 
> bridging device something sensible like "xenbr0", they rename the main physical ethernet device 
> "eth0" to "peth0" and create "eth0" as the Xen bridge (as far as I can tell, anyways).  
> Anyone know where exactly they do this so I can reverse it?  It's throwing my thinking off, because in all other Linux 
> distros, I've always gone for the eth0 device when needing to do networking, and this name change just messes with 
> things.
>
> Thanks!,
>
> --J
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