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Re: [Xen-users] xen 3.2 network problems

To: Marcel.Ritter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] xen 3.2 network problems
From: "Sebastian Reitenbach" <sebastia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:27:34 +0100
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Hi,
Marcel Ritter <Marcel.Ritter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Sebastian Reitenbach schrieb:
> > Hi,
> >   
> Hi,
> > I try to get networking running with xen 3.2, but it seems I fail 
miserably.
> >
> > I am on sles10sp1, with xen 3.2.0, and kernel rpm's installed from SP2.
> >
> >   
> > I configured in /etc/sysconfig/network the NETWORK_LIST:
> >   
> I guess you meant /etc/sysconfig/xend?
> > NETWORK_LIST="bridge,0,default,00:DE:AD:BE:EF,192.168.8.13/24,dhcp-off"
> >
> > but an ifconfig xenbr0 still shows the mac address of peth0 
> > fe:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff.
> >
> > Initially, I had a bond interface on top of eth0 and eth1, the default 
route 
> > was via the bond interface. after rebooting the xen kernel, it saw a 
message 
> > that veth0 was missing, it said maybe because of not enough available 
> > loopback devices. I think more that this had to to with the bond0 
interface.
> > However, I followed the advice, and created some files 
below /etc/modprobe.d 
> > with following contents:
> >
> > cat /etc/modprobe.d/*loop
> > options loop max_loop=64
> > options netloop nloopbacks=64
> >
> > Also, with the bond interface, when the ordinary network started, it 
created 
> > the bond0 interface, and I was able to ping it for some seconds, until 
xend 
> > was started, and it tried to add the bond0 to the xenbr0.
> >
> > when I now restart xend, I have veth0-veth63 and I have vif0.0-vif0.63. 
Is 
> > this the way it should be? I thought it would only create virtual 
interfaces 
> > for the amount of physical interfaces on the dom0 available, at least 
this 
> > was how I have it seen on xen 3.0.4 and 3.1.0. 
> >
> > Then I removed the bond0, and only had a eth0 interface, with IP 
configured, 
> > the default route of the dom0 now via the eth0 interface. After a 
reboot, 
> > this was working well. 
> >
> > So fine, then I added a vlan on top of the eth0, and rebooted. Without 
> > starting xend, I was able to communicate via eth0 and the vlan, then I 
> > started xen, and the tcpdump on the vlan interface stopped seeing 
packets on 
> > that interface. The eth0 was still working. On xen 3.0.4 and xen3.1. I 
had 
> > no such problem with vlan interfaces, so is there anything I am missing?
> >   
> I guess not. I've tried the same with SLES 10 SP2 (Beta1!). I think I
> tracked down
> the problem: SuSE changed the network script to "network-multinet" in 
3.2.0.
> It's really cool, because it's quite easy to setup several different
> networks (and
> you don't need to start scripting in order to get this up and running).
> However
> the script has some problems with vlans (and maybe bonds, didn't test 
that).
> The problem is the usage of ifup/ifdown do (de-)activate interfaces.
> That works
> fine on real (eth*) devices, but running ifdown on a vlan makes the
> device disappear
> (and that's what breaks the Xen magic).
> 
> So I replaced some calls to ifdown with "ip link set dev $dev down" and
> vlans
> started working. I've attached my version of multinet-common.sh (just
> copy to
> /etc/xen/scripts/) - my modifications are only in
> create_normal_bridge(), maybe
> to get your setup working you need to do the same in 
create_bonded_bridge().
> 
> I've submitted a service request to Novell, so if you could test the
> bonding stuff,
> and give some feedback, I'd update / extend this service call. And maybe
> we'll
> get a working version on SLES 10 SP2 final ;-)
I'm ready for today, see my other mail ;) I'll find some time tomorrow to 
try the bonding and vlan stuff.

thanks
Sebastian


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