Re: [Xen-users] Cannot change MAC address of domU vif

[Peter Braun <xenware@xxxxxxxxx>]

Solved.

The problem was " enabled port security" on switch.

Br

Peter



2010/3/30 Simon Hobson <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Peter Braun wrote:
>
>> xen 3.4.1 - several domUs - bridged networking.
>>
>> 1) domU has not been MAC assigned in cfg file. Running for several
>> months without problem.
>>    Now domu has been shutdown. After starting again, vif MAC has been
>> randomly created new.
>>    Domu cannot communicate with gate - can ping only host IP and IPs
>> of domU which are on the same host.
>>    Located previous vif MAC in xend.log and assigned it to domu cfg
>> file - communication works without problem.
>>
>> 2) domU vif MAC cannot be changed
>>
>> 3) in the past we copied one domU accidentally including MAC address.
>> Both original and copy domu cannot
>>    communicate with outside world with any MAC address other then the
>> original.
>>
>> 4) the problem is totaly associated to MAC address allocation. There
>> is no problem to change IP address of "working domU".
>
> The problem is likely to be ARP caching. Devices will cache MAC-IP pairs for
> some time so as to avoid having to keep making ARP requests. Different
> systems will behave differently in terms of how long they cache entries for,
> and whether they'll update the table based on unsolicited packets received.
>
> Another possible cause is switches. I believe some of these will snoop
> traffic and cache IP-MAC pairs as a security measure - blocking packets from
> what they perceive as 'rogue' devices with a different MAC address.
>
> Also, are you running any packet filtering on Dom0 ?
>
>
> The first thing I'd do is look at the ARP table on a host you can't
> communicate with - and delete any stale entries. If that doesn't work, then
> it's time to fire up a packet sniffer and see what packets are getting
> where.
>
>
> At work I have the reverse problem - if we move a device, then the HP
> switches won't forget the old MAC-Port pairing until it times out (5 mins by
> default) and so the minimum outage when moving something is 5 minutes
> without going into the switches and fiddling.
>
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