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Re: [Xen-users] xen without xenbr0

To: deshantm@xxxxxxxxx, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] xen without xenbr0
From: Alexander Hoßdorf <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:43:27 +0200
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In my case I only had to start xend.
Then there was no more ethernet connectivity and xen bridges did not come up.
And yes, it was a 32 bit system.
I had downloaded the bnx2 drivers from broadcom and compiled them from source. I don't know the version exactly any more, but I can say version 1.6.9 works well for me. I think downloading the latest driver and then building it from source ois the safest way?!

Cheers,
Alex

Todd Deshane schrieb:
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Alexander Hoßdorf
<xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you're running a Dell PowerEdge you have a Broadcom ethernet Adapter,
right?
Are you using the bnx2 module?

I had the same issues using debian.
There is a bug in this driver, that freezes the driver when used with xen.

What is a use case that makes it freeze?

Could it be specific to 32bit?

I've haven't (yet) seem any problems on 64 bit.

We are using the drivers that come with 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen + CentOS 5.2

Cheers,
Todd



The newest version which you can download from broadcom fixes this.

What version of bnx2 do you have?

Might this perhaps be your problem?

Cheers,
Alex



Jia Rao schrieb:
Unfortunately, the eth0 starts to fail sometimes when xend is started
(better than the previous NIC driver, with previous one, eth0 fails even
without starting xend, and I can not see xenbr0). Right now, there are
xenbr0 and xenbr1 in ifconfig -a.

I am trying to disable the management firmware in the NIC now...

Jia.

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Jia Rao <rickenrao@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:rickenrao@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

   I am running Xen 3.1 compiled from source and REHL 4.5 shipped
   with Dell PowerEdge 1950 III.




   On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Todd Deshane <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx
   <mailto:deshantm@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

       On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Jia Rao <rickenrao@xxxxxxxxx
       <mailto:rickenrao@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
       > We got the PowerEdge III Boxes a month ago.
       >

 http://mywiki.ncsa.uiuc.edu/wiki/Dell_PE1950_NIC_Firmware_Workaround
       is the
       > solution I found. However I did not have any CD with me, so
       I tried to
       > upgrade the NIC driver first as indicated by the following
       link in Citrix
       > forum
       >
       http://forums.citrix.com/thread.jspa?threadID=151786&tstart=0
       <http://forums.citrix.com/thread.jspa?threadID=151786&tstart=0>
       >
       > I worked for me, but some guys in Citrix forum said it still
       has some
       > problems after one week running.
       >

       What version of Xen and distro are you running?


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       Todd Deshane
       http://todddeshane.net
       check out our book: http://runningxen.com



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