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Re: [Xen-users] Xen 3 networking issues

To: Christian Hertel <c.hertel@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen 3 networking issues
From: Yura Pismerov <y.pismerov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 09:07:40 -0400
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Though last time I checked with them (a few months ago) this option was
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Christian Hertel wrote:
> Hello allz,
>
> some time ago, several Xen 3 networking issues have been reported in
> both the user mailing list as well as in bugzilla.xensource.com,
> especially when using 8021q tagged vlan interfaces (i. e.
> http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=642).
>
> Meanwhile, I daily checked the xen-testing changelog looking for patches
> which might fix those issues, but the last one submitted is from 3 weeks
> ago (I searched for checksum and vlan).
>
> Does somebody know if anybody is working on and/or investigating those
> issues (the bug I submitted has not yet been acknowledged)?
> Or perhaps they are already fixed?!
>
> We are waiting for a xen 3 version with working bridged vlan interfaces
> to set up a large environment (> 100 servers), both for us as well as
> for one of our largest customers. But in my humble opinion, using
> ethtool to disable checksum offloading or something similar to
> workaround the networking issues instead of fixing them is not an
> acceptable situation for a xen version which is called "stable", and is
> not a suitable solution for production use. :-(
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Christian Hertel
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