xen init scripts and networking

[rsala]

I was having trouble getting network bridging to work between my dom0 and my domU last week. Then Sat. there was an update to xen,

[pjp]

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[Simba]

I had the same problem few weeks ago, but it works now fine. I use also now 2
bridges, one for normal networking to internet, and another bridge for private
addresses.
But unfortunately I forget what I did to resolve my problem maybe I just
tried difference combinations of configs or kernel.
Maybe you can try manualy to execute "/etc/xen/scripts/network-brigde start"
before you start the xend daemon, and check if all virtual interfaces
are created.
you can try also to set RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING="lo"
in /etc/conf.d/rc

I had also another network problem before, when I start xend, all virtual interfaces
were created but they don't have network connection anymore, and then I found out
the problem was with mii-tool I used to set inteface's speed and autonegotiation
manualy during the boot. If I don't use it or if I use ethtool instead of mii-tool,
the networking works perfectly.

Simba

[rawlink]

I was having this exact same problem.

All my issues where fixed by setting RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING="lo" in /etc/conf.d/rc .

This is also mentioned somewhere in the xen-users mailing list.

[rsala]

Thanks! It worked for me too. I had read thru the /etc/conf.d/rc file after Simba's post, but "lo" didn't seem like what I wanted.

Does anyone know why it works this way? I would have expected that I would need my eth0 up before I could configure it for bridging.