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Re: [Xen-users] correct steps to add XEN bridge to Debian squeeze?

To: Simon Hobson <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] correct steps to add XEN bridge to Debian squeeze?
From: Todd Deshane <todd.deshane@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 11:11:52 -0400
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On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Simon Hobson <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Diego Dave wrote:
>
>> I think the easiest way to set up a bridge configuration on only one
>> interface (eth0), is enabling the "(network-script network-bridge)" in
>> "xend-config.sxp"... this makes a bridge on eth0 directly...
>
> Many, myself included, disagree - at least once you get past the most simple
> single interface setup. The functioning of the Xen scripts is obscure, and
> very difficult to customise. Certainly in Debian, it's easier to do all the
> network config with the host OS and leave Xen out of it.
>

Xen.org agrees. That is why we've deprecated xend and made it explicit
that networking should be configured with the distribution (as you
say):

http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/HostConfiguration/Networking

-- 
Todd Deshane
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