Re: [Xen-users] Xen with NIC Bonding on Debian Etch ?

[Pierre-Alain RIVIERE <pariviere@xxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

As far as I'm concerned I have no problem with NIC bonding on Xen.

I've used the following to get it working :
http://anothergeekwebsite.com/fr/2007/06/xen-vlan-et-bonding-oui-oui-tout-ca 
(sorry it's in french but only the configuration files are important)
OK, there's also VLAN support but you can drop this part, it is likely 
the same.
It seems I proceed the same way as you but for the xen network script.


Artur Mücke wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I am trying to get bonding work on a debian etch system. I searched
> already in the mailing list but unfortunately I couldnt find a proper
> solution. This is what i did so far.
>
> - Installed Debian Etch on my server
> - Installed the following packages for using Xen from the Debian repository:
>
> xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-i386-pae
> linux-image-2.6.18-5-xen-686
> linux-image-2.6.18-5-xen-686
> xen-tools
> libc6-xen
> bridge-utils
>
> - Setup bonding like this:
>
> /etc/modprobe.d/arch/i386
> =========================
> alias bond0 bonding
> options bond0 mode=6 miimon=50
>
> /etc/network/interfaces
> =======================
> auto eth0 eth1
>
> auto bond0
> iface bond0 inet static
>       address 10.3.4.2
>       netmask 255.255.255.0
>       network 10.3.4.0
>       broadcast 10.3.4.255
>       gateway 10.3.4.1
>       up /sbin/ifenslave bond0 eth0
>       down /sbin/ifenslave -d bond0 eth0
> ========================================
>
> Everything is working fine so far. To get bonding (kind of) working with
> xen I read the following howto:
>
> http://vandelande.com/guides/howto%20setup%20XEN%20using%20network%20bonding%20on%20SLES10.html
>
> I took the posted script and saved is as
> /etc/xen/scripts/network-bonding-bridge
>
> If I run the script the according devices are created.
>
> So far so good.
>
> The next I created a domU. My setup is quit simple:
>
> ==============================================
> kernel  = '/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-xen-686'
> ramdisk = '/boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-5-xen-686'
> memory  = '256'
> root    = '/dev/sda1 ro'
> disk    =
> ['phy:/dev/sda8,sda1,w','phy:/dev/sda9,sda2,w','phy:/dev/sda10,sda3,w' ]
> name    = 'vm_mydomU'
>
> vif=[ 'ip=10.3.4.3' ]
> dhcp="off"
> netmask='255.255.255.000'
> gateway='10.3.4.1'
> ==============================================
>
> If I start the domU there are no error-messages at all. The connection
> works for a (very) short while. For example if I send a ping to a random
> host (internal or external), the connection works for around 5 or 6
> ICMP-message-replies. Then the connection brakes down. Kind of the same
> problem was already described on the list in the following post:
>
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2007-04/msg00236.html
>
> Unfortunately nobody answered. :-/
>
> I hope someone got bonding to work with xen and could describe me what I
> am doing wrong.
>
> Would be glad to get some help.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Artur
>
>
>
>
>
>   
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