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Re: [Xen-users] network setting or Xen setting?

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] network setting or Xen setting?
From: "Christopher G. Stach II" <cgs@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:19:58 -0200
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Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a laptop, VT CPU, on which I would like to launch Full
> virtuallization.
> I am running Suse 10.2.
> My network is about a wifi modem, DHCP.
> The main interface is eth1, the wifi one. I dont use the wired interface
> at all for the moment. xend-config.sxp is already setup with
> netdev=eth1.
> dom0 accesses to the net without problem. Although the xen bridging
> script has setup the bridge, dom0 has really no problem either to
> scan/list existent wifi networks/AP or to request via DHCP and get DHCP
> offers.
> 
> The problem is the domU. Typically, when in the domU, I try to install a
> Debian netinst: the DHCP request stays unanswered. I believe the wifi
> modem offers the DHCP lease, but it does not reach the domU's NIC. Could
> it be possible? What if it's not that?
> 
> Is it possible that the network-bridge script is not automatically doing
> the right setup?
> 
> I cannot set manually the IP address, because the modem is not
> NATting/routing IP address it did not offer. Things MUST go DHCP.

Fire up tcpdump and find out where the packets are/aren't going.

-- 
Christopher G. Stach II


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