Re: [Xen-users] NOT RESOLVED: Broadcom NetXtreme II (DELL 1950)

["Fajar A. Nugraha" <fajar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stefan de Konink wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Kris S. Amundson schreef:
> > Upgrading the bnx2 driver is the key.  I came to find bnx2 is included
> > in the initrd.  Debian comes with 1.4.44 and Ubuntu 1.4.45 of the
> > driver.  As of this writing 1.5.10c is the latest from Broadcom and is
> > what I ended up using.
>

Strange. I thought network drivers were not supposed to be included in
the initrd.

>
> Just updated the driver, verified it was loaded (by version), changed
> the config of xend back to bridged. Restarted Xend, bang, bridge kills
> the interface.
>

One question. On your configuration, does bridge works on native Linux?

>
> So my basic assumption:
> - A bridge should be placed automatically by the default scripts over
> something like peth0/eth0 and the vif interface between the virtual
> hosts. The peth0/eth0 is the interface you receive your netwerk
> connections on.
>
>

I had problems with some models of Broadcom NICs (both tg3 and bnx2
drivers). Other than that, I didn't like the way xend start script was
changing network device names, so what I did was :
- upgrade the drivers
- changed network-script to /bin/true on xend-config.sxp
- setup bridge using standard RHEL config files
(/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0)

I find this approach works best on my setup. Using RHEL5, which includes
Xen-3.0.3.

Regards,

Fajar

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