Re: Setting up the network interface on Linux domU

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

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 09:26:51PM +0100, Damian Sobczak wrote:
> On my Debian installation I have the network interface specified
> 
> 
> iface eth2 inet dhcp
> 
> 
> but on the Debian domU it's eth16, after each reboot or shutdown it's
> a different interface number.
> 
> 
> Can I specify e.g on the xen configuration file the right eth interface?

It's the linux kernel which decide the if's name in this case. I don't
know what rules it uses for this but I find it strange that it doesn't
always pick up the same name.
I don't know what debian did to their kernel, but with scientific linux 5
domUs the interface always shows up as eth0.

> 
> I don't understand, on NetBSD domU works DHCP with bridge, on Linux not.

is it dhclient which doens't work, or is it just that it tries to
run on a nonexistent interface ?

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