Apologies if these questions are rather basic, but I''m a little confused by the bridging. I''ve got a debian sarge dom0 with several debian sarge domUs, using different IPs in the same network and the default bridging setup and for IPv4 everything seems to work fine. One thing I''ve noticed though, is that my dom0 cannot talk to any of the domUs over IPv6 even though IPv6 is fully working in the domUs and works for non-local addresses in dom0: [andy@dom0 andy]$ ip -6 addr 1: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,PROMISC,UP> mtu 1500 qlen 1000 inet6 2001:ba8:0:1f1:2e0:81ff:fe64:1d07/64 scope global dynamic valid_lft 2313320sec preferred_lft 326120sec inet6 fe80::2e0:81ff:fe64:1d07/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 3: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP> mtu 16436 inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 5: xen-br0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 inet6 2001:ba8:0:1f1:2e0:81ff:fe64:1d07/64 scope global dynamic valid_lft 2591938sec preferred_lft 604738sec inet6 fe80::200:ff:fe00:0/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 7: vif2.0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,PROMISC,UP> mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 9: vif3.0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,PROMISC,UP> mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 10: vif4.0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,PROMISC,UP> mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever [andy@dom0 andy]$ ip -6 ro 2001:ba8:0:1f1::/64 dev eth0 proto kernel metric 256 expires 2312526sec mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 64 2001:ba8:0:1f1::/64 dev xen-br0 proto kernel metric 256 expires 2591856sec mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 64 fe80::/64 dev eth0 metric 256 mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 64 fe80::/64 dev xen-br0 metric 256 mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 64 fe80::/64 dev vif2.0 metric 256 mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 64 fe80::/64 dev vif3.0 metric 256 mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 64 fe80::/64 dev vif4.0 metric 256 mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 64 ff00::/8 dev eth0 metric 256 mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 1 ff00::/8 dev xen-br0 metric 256 mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 1 ff00::/8 dev vif2.0 metric 256 mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 1 ff00::/8 dev vif3.0 metric 256 mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 1 ff00::/8 dev vif4.0 metric 256 mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 1 default via fe80::20a:41ff:fe62:c140 dev xen-br0 proto kernel metric 1024 expires 1656sec mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 64 unreachable default dev lo proto none metric -1 error -101 hoplimit 255 [andy@dom0 andy]$ ping6 www.sixxs.net PING www.sixxs.net(noc.sixxs.net) 56 data bytes 64 bytes from noc.sixxs.net: icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=139 ms 64 bytes from noc.sixxs.net: icmp_seq=2 ttl=52 time=138 ms 64 bytes from noc.sixxs.net: icmp_seq=3 ttl=52 time=138 ms 64 bytes from noc.sixxs.net: icmp_seq=4 ttl=52 time=138 ms --- www.sixxs.net ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3035ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 138.083/138.572/139.084/0.532 ms [andy@domU andy]$ ip -6 addr 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP> mtu 16436 inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qlen 1000 inet6 2001:ba8:0:1f1:a800:ff:fe0a:dd6a/64 scope global dynamic valid_lft 2591993sec preferred_lft 604793sec inet6 fe80::a800:ff:fe0a:dd6a/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever [andy@domU andy]$ ip -6 ro 2001:ba8:0:1f1::/64 dev eth0 proto kernel metric 256 expires 2591819sec mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 64 fe80::/64 dev eth0 metric 256 mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 64 ff00::/8 dev eth0 metric 256 mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 1 default via fe80::20a:41ff:fe62:c140 dev eth0 proto kernel metric 1024 expires 1619sec mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 64 unreachable default dev lo proto none metric -1 error -101 hoplimit 255 [andy@domU andy]$ ping6 www.sixxs.net PING www.sixxs.net(noc.sixxs.net) 56 data bytes 64 bytes from noc.sixxs.net: icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=137 ms 64 bytes from noc.sixxs.net: icmp_seq=2 ttl=52 time=138 ms 64 bytes from noc.sixxs.net: icmp_seq=3 ttl=52 time=138 ms 64 bytes from noc.sixxs.net: icmp_seq=4 ttl=52 time=138 ms --- www.sixxs.net ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3035ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 137.675/138.403/138.740/0.567 ms domU can get to dom0: [andy@domU andy]$ ping6 2001:ba8:0:1f1:2e0:81ff:fe64:1d07 PING 2001:ba8:0:1f1:2e0:81ff:fe64:1d07(2001:ba8:0:1f1:2e0:81ff:fe64:1d07) 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 2001:ba8:0:1f1:2e0:81ff:fe64:1d07: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=4.57 ms 64 bytes from 2001:ba8:0:1f1:2e0:81ff:fe64:1d07: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.071 ms 64 bytes from 2001:ba8:0:1f1:2e0:81ff:fe64:1d07: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.082 ms 64 bytes from 2001:ba8:0:1f1:2e0:81ff:fe64:1d07: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.077 ms 64 bytes from 2001:ba8:0:1f1:2e0:81ff:fe64:1d07: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.078 ms 64 bytes from 2001:ba8:0:1f1:2e0:81ff:fe64:1d07: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=0.051 ms --- 2001:ba8:0:1f1:2e0:81ff:fe64:1d07 ping statistics --- 6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 5014ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.051/0.822/4.575/1.678 ms but dom0 can''t get to domU: [andy@dom0 andy]$ ping6 2001:ba8:0:1f1:a800:ff:fe0a:dd6a PING 2001:ba8:0:1f1:a800:ff:fe0a:dd6a(2001:ba8:0:1f1:a800:ff:fe0a:dd6a) 56 data bytes From ::1 icmp_seq=1 Destination unreachable: Address unreachable From ::1 icmp_seq=2 Destination unreachable: Address unreachable From ::1 icmp_seq=3 Destination unreachable: Address unreachable --- 2001:ba8:0:1f1:a800:ff:fe0a:dd6a ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 4027ms so have I missed something obvious? IPv4 works fine. Secondly, my next goal is to use iptables in dom0 to restrict what can get to both dom0 and the domUs. If I need to refer to an interface in iptables (and ip6tables), should it be eth0 or xen-br0? Does all traffic for all domains arrive at both eth0 and xen-br0? And leave by both those interfaces? Do the vif interfaces play any role for iptables? If I want to put in iptables rules to do accounting from traffic going to/from each domain, should I be doing that by looking what goes over each vif? Finally, here''s an example config file for one of my domUs: name="foo" memory=128 kernel="/boot/xen-linux-2.6.10xenu" nics=1 disk=[ ''phy:mainvg/fooroot,sda1,w'', ''phy:mainvg/fooswap,sda2,w'' ] root="/dev/sda1 ro" when this got started this domain got a random MAC address as expected. Then I realised that it would automatically configure an IPv6 address based on that random MAC. As I don''t want the IPv6 address to change again, I guess I need to tell it to keep the MAC it has chosen already, across any restarts. The domU currently has a MAC of aa:00:00:0a:dd:6a. Do I just need to add: vif=[ ''mac=aa:00:00:0a:dd:6a'' ] to the config file? Thanks for any help or pointers with these probably very basic questions. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users