Dear All, I have a fresh new setup of the below on new cisco UCS Blade server Centos 6.5 x 64 Xen 4.2.3 now I did install a new centos 6.5 virtual machine domU and selected the network as a bridge the issue I have is the domu can ping the xen server that is domain 0 and vice versa but from the DOMU machine I cannot reach any other machine from the Xen server that is Domain 0 there is absolutely no problem. its can reach any machine in our network below is the config of the xen domain server ---- [root@xenserver1 log]# ifconfig br1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:25:B5:10:00:05 inet addr:172.16.2.52 Bcast:172.16.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::225:b5ff:fe10:5/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:16355 errors:0 dropped:88 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1969 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:1178766 (1.1 MiB) TX bytes:331166 (323.4 KiB) eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:25:B5:10:00:05 inet6 addr: fe80::225:b5ff:fe10:5/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:16049 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1534 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1481245 (1.4 MiB) TX bytes:296899 (289.9 KiB) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1 RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:504 (504.0 b) TX bytes:504 (504.0 b) vif1.0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:340 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:14844 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:32 RX bytes:52561 (51.3 KiB) TX bytes:1317477 (1.2 MiB) virbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 8A:B9:0F:8B:8D:95 inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) ---- [root@xenserver1 log]# route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface default 172.16.2.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 br1 link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 1004 0 0 br1 172.16.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 br1 192.168.122.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 virbr0 --- now on the xen dom U ip is 172.16.2.53 and gateway is 172.16.2.254 ------- [root@xenserver1 log]# brctl show bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces br1 8000.0025b5100005 no eth1 vif1.0 virbr0 8000.000000000000 yes ------------ what I am missing .. really appreciate your kind help regards simon -- View this message in context: http://xen.1045712.n5.nabble.com/new-xen-guest-cannot-communicate-with-the-network-tp5721108.html Sent from the Xen - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.