Subject: Re: dom0/domU bridging - don't get it to work
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Florian Heigl <floh@deranfangvomen.de>
List: port-xen
Date: 09/27/2005 03:47:12
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 03:27:00AM +0200, Florian Heigl wrote:
> After some time, I've been finally able to continue on setting up 
> this...

And now I found the error ;)

> On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:37:59PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 01:30:53AM +0200, Florian Heigl wrote:


> I can now see the domU pinging when I run tcpdump on xvif2.0, 
> and after some time I also noticed that the bridge wasn't UP
> 
> xen-host-2# brconfig -a
> bridge0: flags=41<UP,RUNNING>
>         Configuration:
>                 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15 maxage 20
>                 ipfilter disabled flags 0x0
> 
> unfortunately this still doesn't give me brigding to the 'real' ethernet.

which is slightly related to the fact that the bridge doesn't point to
the physical interface fxp0 yet. 
I manually re-issued the bridge setup from /etc/ifconfig.bridge0 and 
everything is working now.

:)

thanks for the vif-bridge script and the pointing to brconfig anyway!!!!

florian