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RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][RFC] do ifdown netdev before shutting down vif0
>> I've been trying to track down an occasional system hang when doing
>> /etc/xen/scripts/network- bridge stop. Would it be reasonable to do
> the
>> fdown ${netdev} and then set ${vif0} down to provide ifdown with a
>> behavior that is as close as possible to a real network card?
>
> Does this fix the hang?
>
> Making changes to this script in the past has been extremely painful as
> it invariably breaks one distro or another -- usually gentoo :)
>
> Would be good to have some other eyes look at this.
>
> Ian
I've been testing this on SLES 10 and the patch doesn't seem to be harmful.
But like you said, network-bridge is very fragile, so it would be good to get
input from others.
>From what I understand this may be a SLES 10 issue where the hang happens when
>a) the ethernet device used for the external connection is configured for
>dhcp, and b) there exists at least one process that has been started from a
>NFS share. This patch would be part one of a two part fix. The second part,
>currently being worked, would address the ifdown/ifdown-dhcp with NFS issue.
Kirk
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