Subject: Re: domU network configuration in xen config file
To: Dirk H. Schulz <dirk.schulz@kinzesberg.de>
From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be>
List: port-xen
Date: 03/13/2006 09:28:25
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 07:46:05AM +0100, Dirk H. Schulz wrote:
> As far as I know a Linux domU does NOT use these values. They are meant
> for something different: If you have an IP address in your domU config
> AND you have configured xen with "antispoof=yes", then packets are
> bridged only from this ip address.
> You can still setup up the domU with a different ip address internally,
> then, but if you do it does not have network connectivity.

In my experience the Linux domU does use it.  I installed a Gentoo stage3
image, without modifying anything but /etc/fstab, and booted it with a
Linux domU kernel from the Xen distribution.  It used the network
configuration from the Xen config file right out of the box.  

	Geert