Re: [Xen-users] Xen Networking and bonded interfaces on Debia Lenny

[David Scammell <davescammell@xxxxxxxxx>]

2009/7/6 Joshua Boniface <joshua.boniface@xxxxxxxx>

Thank you for your assistance gentlemen, by using network-dummy I've been able to get networking working in Dom0, however, since I have no bridge, not in the DomUs. The OS is Debian Lenny, so if anyone knows how to set up such a bridge manually, I'd definitely appreciate the help! Thanks,

This is what I've just done, this is lightly tested so far, a bonded pair and bridging on top of it, just bring up the br0 interface (ifup br0) and it will build the bond automatically itself:

Bonding in a Debian Lenny based Xen Dom0

Add 'bonding' to /etc/modules, actually the ifenslave script loads this module if not already present, but this is untested.

Prepare an interfaces script similar to this:

# The loopback network interface
auto lo br0
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface - this for dom0 access, would probably be a static address in production.
allow-hotplug eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp


iface bond0 inet manual
        slaves eth1 eth3
        bond_mode    active-backup (or 802.3ad for LACP)
        bond_primary eth1
        bond_miimon  100
        bond_updelay 400
        bond_downdelay 200

        # see /usr/share/doc/ifenslave-2.6/README.Debian and more usefully
        # /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/ifenslave

iface br0 inet manual
# use the following if a dom0 IP is required for this lan
#iface br0 inet static

#        address 192.168.0.2
#        netmask 255.255.255.0
#        broadcast 192.168.0.255
# you may want gateway 192.168.0.1 etc here also
# if not using an IP then you can choose to add bridge_maxwait 0 but this is untested

# continue with the following
        bridge_ports bond0
        pre-up /sbin/ifup bond0
        post-down /sbin/ifdown bond0
        # see man bridge-utils-interfaces

for this to work you should first of installed bridge-utils and ifenslave(-2.6). I see no reason why this cannot be expanded to cover as may interfaces/bonds as is required, it might be necessary to include options bonding max_bonds=2 etc if using more than one network bond.

The debian lenny setup already has network-dummy in place and is the default. Amend the bridge name in the vmx file if required but I believe (for a non-HVM domain) it will automatically use br0 rather than the old xenbr0 name. There really isn't anything else which requires modifing.

cheers dave

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