[Xen-users] Solved: network problems when starting xend, Xen-3.0 + tg3

["Woon Wai Keen @ doubleukay.com" <doubleukay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I finally found out why the network became unreachable (to the point 
that tcpdump -i peth0 revealed no packets) when xend is started. This is 
triggered when the tg3 interface is added to a bridge before the link 
comes up.
The message displayed on the console is:
        bridge: can't decode speed from peth0: 0.

In scripts/network-bridge, the order of the operations are:
        add_to_bridge ${bridge} ${vif0}
        add_to_bridge ${bridge} ${pdev}
        ip link set ${bridge} up
        ip link set ${vif0} up
        ip link set ${pdev} up

What worked for me is:
        ip link set ${bridge} up
        ip link set ${vif0} up
        ip link set ${pdev} up
        sleep 5 # to allow for autonegotiation period
        add_to_bridge ${bridge} ${vif0}
        add_to_bridge ${bridge} ${pdev}

The problem persists when forcing the link speed and disabling auto-neg 
with ethtool.
Is this a bug with the tg3 driver or the bridging code?

--
Regards,
wK (www.doubleukay.com)

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