[Xen-devel] RE: [PATCH] network -> network-bridge rename WAS: Re: RE: help with bugs

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > I guess setups with multiple active NICs are relatively 
> rare and can 
> > be dealt with using a top-level script (or configured manually).
> 
> I'd disagree with that (unless I am misunderstanding the 
> definition of active).  Every pizza box server I've seen ship 
> in the last 3 years has had dual onboard nics.  Dual nic 
> setup for server (one for production and one for 
> administration) is best practice for any reasonable size 
> server environment.

I think you're actually agreeing with me.

Having a separate dom0 interface for administration is certainly good
practice. 
However, having multiple bridges is probably relatively rare, so we can
probably get away with not having multiple network-script lines.
However, I'd prefer that we could.

> > NB: The default for 'network-script' should be to run no 
> script at all.

That's true for versions shipped with a distro, but right now, having
the network-bridge script as the default when xend starts should
actually work for most people.

It probably won't if you're using NFS root or anything else fancy, but I
still think its worth having.

The current observed flakiness by some people is disturbing and we need
to understand why. Please can someone who is seeing this problem please
dig in to it. We've run the script on lots of different machines without
seeing problems.

Thanks,
Ian

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