[Xen-users] bridged networking doesn't bring up eth0: RTNETLINK answers: File exists

[Brian Lavender <brian@xxxxxxxx>]

I am running Xen on Debian wheezy. I switched from routed networking to bridged
networking. Now I can't seem to get eth0 to come up. When the network script
tries to bring it up, it gets an error: RTNETLINK answers: File exists

Any tips? details below

brian

root@trout:/etc/xen# egrep -v '#|^ *$' xend-config.sxp
(network-script network-bridge)
(vif-script vif-bridge)
(dom0-min-mem 196)
(enable-dom0-ballooning yes)
(total_available_memory 0) 
(dom0-cpus 0)
(vncpasswd '')

root@trout:/etc/xen#  ifup eth0
ifdown: interface eth0 not configured
RTNETLINK answers: File exists

root@trout:~# brctl show
bridge name     bridge id               STP enabled     interfaces
eth0            8000.8c89a511f016       no              peth0

root@trout:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces
# The primary network interface
auto eth0

iface eth0 inet static
        address 173.228.81.234
        broadcast 173.228.81.255
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway 173.228.81.1

-- 
Brian Lavender
http://www.brie.com/brian/

"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture

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