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RE: [Xen-devel] Odd Bridging Quirk

To: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Odd Bridging Quirk
From: "Chris Babcock" <cbabcock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:25:34 -0700 (PDT)
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lspci reports:
Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704S Gigabit
Ethernet (rev 10)

dmesg reports:
eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95704A41) rev 2100 PHY(serdes)]
(PCIX:133MHz:64-bit) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:11:25:4a:9a:4a
eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[1] Split[0] WireSpeed[1]
TSOcap[0]

No firewalling rules of any kind have been configured.  The default vendor
(debian) system config does not include firewalling rules.  I am currently
using the binary kernel provided in the Xen stable 2.0.6 distribution
(base kernel version 2.6.11.10).

> What network card(s) are you using?
>
> Do you have any firewall rules that might be operating at the bridge
> level?
>
> James
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-devel-
>> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Babcock
>> Sent: Tuesday, 21 June 2005 08:42
>> To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [Xen-devel] Odd Bridging Quirk
>>
>> I am seeing an odd bridging quirk, on my domU instances.
>>
>> When any of my domU's start, they cannot receive any traffic until
> they
>> have sent at least a few packets.  Time seems to have no effect on
> this
>> behavior.  If I let an idle domU sit for an hour, it still fails to
>> receive, if it has not originated any traffic.
>>
>> My workaround for the moment, is an added rc-init script that pings
> the
>> default gateway a few times when the domain first comes up.
>>
>> Is this normal? Should there be a warning in the docs, if it is?  If
> not,
>> does anybody have any ideas what may be causing this?
>>
>> -CRB
>>
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