Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Trivial changes to vif-bridge and vif-common.sh

[Ewan Mellor <ewan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 03:35:16PM -0500, James Dykman wrote:

> 1) "brctl show" has no parameters. 
>         On FC3, brctl ignores the extra parameter and shows all bridges. 
> My SLES9 SP2 box is not so cooperative:
>         # brctl show xenbr0
>         incorrect number of arguments for command
> 
> 2) Add a -n flag to iptables -L to skip DNS lookups
>         DNS timeouts take quite a while, causing the infamous "Hotplug 
> scripts not working" errors while waiting for vif-bridge.
>         xm create fails, and runs the hotplug remove on the 
> partially-configured vif. Later, when iptables -L successfully completes,
>         vif-bridge finishes the remaining configuration, leaving an 
> orphaned vif cluttering up dom0.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jim Dykman <dykman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 

Thanks for your patch Jim.  I've applied this.  I've also added
tools/examples/README.incompatibilities, into which I've added your information
about brctl on SLES9.  Hopefully this will expand to include all of the 
distro-specific problems that we suffer.

Thanks again,

Ewan.

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