After installing Xen from openSUSE 10.2 rpm (3.0.3_11774-20) and
successfully starting Dom0, I lose all access to the network.
I have found a work around, but that's all what it is: just a work
around. The root cause remains unclear to me. I hope my message will
be the start of finding the real cause. I am of course willing to
provide more information and help debugging if necessary.
After quite some digging, I have come to the conclusion that the
reason for having no network access at all is the following:
# ifconfig peth0
peth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
UP BROADCAST NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:9684 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6396 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:12095362 (11.5 Mb) TX bytes:465140 (454.2 Kb)
Interrupt:17 Base address:0xc800
The link is UP, but nor RUNNING. In this situation, pinging to a
locally connected device gives "Destination Host Unreachable":
# ping -c1 10.0.0.138
PING 10.0.0.138 (10.0.0.138) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 10.0.0.5: icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
--- 10.0.0.138 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 received, +1 errors, 100% packet loss, time
0ms
The work around that I found is bringing the link down and, after a
few seconds, bring it up again:
# ip link set peth0 down; sleep 3; ip link set peth0 up
After a few seconds, the state of the link is UP and RUNNING:
peth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:9691 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6404 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:12095923 (11.5 Mb) TX bytes:465573 (454.6 Kb)
Interrupt:17 Base address:0xc800
Im this state the network works fine, locally and to the outside
world.
Stopping the Xen bridge with "/etc/xen/scripts/network-bridge stop"
brings the link (now called eth0) in a similar state as above: up,
but not running. The same trick works here too: bring eth0 down, wait
a few seconds and bring it up again. In this case, also the default
route needs to be restored: ip route add to default via 10.0.0.138
The hardware I'm using is:
CPU:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz
The ethernet device is integrated in the motherboard:
ALi Corporation ULi 1689,1573 integrated ethernet. (rev 50)
I'm using SUSE:
openSUSE 10.2 (X86-64) - Kernel 2.6.18.2-34-xen
The Xen configuration is clean out of the box.
Just let me know if more information is needed.
As a side note: as I was (and still am) not quite sure about the
meaning of UP and RUNNING in the output of ifconfig, I found this
after some googling:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2004-August/007817.html
Quote:
As a matter of fact, the IFF_RUNNING flag, visible as ``RUNNING'' in
the output from ifconfig(8), is intended for interface's internal use
and should not influence the interaction of the interface with other
modules, except for affecting careful user's experience :-)
I don't know if this is BSD behavior only. It is at least not the
behavior I see.
--
Paul.
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