Re: Xen networking trouble

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 12:04:11PM +0100, Gábor Gábris wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have a problem with xen networking. My little home network looks like the
> following:
> I have a router at 192.168.1.1 that connects to the internet and gives the
> IPs 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.4 through DHCP to two computers. On the
> machine with 192.168.1.2 I am trying to establish a system with a linux xen
> dom0 (frugalware) and with a NetBSD 3.1 domU. I use xen 3.0.3 with
> 
> (network-script network-bridge) and
> (vif-script vif-bridge)
> 
> entries in my /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp file. The netbsd.cfg config file I
> have the following entries for networking:
> 
> vif = [ '' ]
> dhcp = "dhcp"
> 
> (I tried to keep it as simple as I could, because I am not very experienced
> in networking.)
> The problem is that the domU does not get a DHCPOFFER when the installer
> tries to run dhclient.
> Can anybody help me a bit?

I'm not familiar with linux dom0, but
- does dom0 have a bridge created when the domU is running ?
- does this bridge have your physical interface ?
- does this bridge have the virtual interface for the domain ?
- Is the virtual interface up in dom0 ?

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