Re: [Xen-users] Getting the bridged network running on Debian Squeeze with Xen 4.0.1

[Simon Hobson <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Taschik, Daniel wrote:

> On the Host, my xend-configuration.sxp looks like this:
>
> (vif-script vif-bridge)
> (network-script 'network-bridge bridge=eth0')
OK, stop right there, comment out network-script. The Xen supplied 
scripts are not needed now and are to all intents deprecated in 
favour of Host OS facilities. Debian in particular make sit an 
absolute doddle to set up the bridge. All you need in 
/etc/network/interfaces is something like this :
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
  bridge_ports peth0
  address 192.168.x.y
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  gateway 192.168.x.z

And I've used /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules to set the 
name of the physical interface to peth0. You don't have to do this, 
you can use any name for the bridge, and any name for the physical 
NIC.
That *really* is all you need to create a bridge in Debian these days !

I'd try that first and see if it changes anything. If not then 
there's something else going on. I'm running 4.0.1 & Debian Squeeze 
both at home and work, i686 and AMD64.

One other thing I'd try is not specifying any IP addressing when 
creating the guest. That ought to bypass any iptables stuff being set 
up in vif-script.
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