On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 04:41:30PM +0100, Chris Fanning wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using two bridges.
> Since upgrading from 3.0-2 to 3.0-4 the vif's are randomly
> interchanged when passed to domU.
>
> sometimes vif1.0 gets assigned to eth0 and vif1.1 to eth1 on domU
> sometimes vif1.1 gets assigned to eth0 and vif1.0 to eth1 on domU
>
> I've tried two 'my-network-bridge' scripts.
>
Hi Chris
Assuming that the output of "brctl show" (ignoring the bridge-id
field), looks like this:
bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces
xenbr0 8000.feffffffffff no vif0.0
peth0
xenbr1 8000.feffffffffff no vif0.1
peth1
then you don't need to worry about the bridge building script you are
running.
I have no idea why your vif interfaces are being assigned randomly to
eth interfaces in your domUs, but a quick test here suggests that
you can work around the problem by specifying static mac addresses
and using a bit of udev magic in domU. The following are instructions
on how to acheive this.
1. In the configuration file for a domU, specify a static mac address
and a bridge for each interface as follows:
vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3e:00:00:11, bridge=xenbr0',
'mac=00:16:3e:00:00:22, bridge=xenbr1' ]
Make sure you put commas in all the right places.
2. Then inside the domU create a file called /etc/udev/vm-local.rules
and put the following in it:
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ATTRS{address}=="00:16:3e:00:00:11", NAME="eth0"
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ATTRS{address}=="00:16:3e:00:00:22", NAME="eth1"
3. Now just add a symlink to the udev rules directory so that your
rules file, vm-local.rules, is processed before all the other rules
files. The following works on my distro:
cd /etc/udev/rules.d
ln -s ../vm-local.rules 010_vm-local.rules
Make sure that your symlink ends in ".rules" or it will be ignored.
Now, every time you start this domU, udev should ensure that eth0 and
eth1 are always the same devices.
Probably not the answer you were hoping for, but hopefully it helps.
jez
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