Re: [Xen-users] hvm domU networking question (ipcop)

ben henrion
2007-06-05T09:40:07Z

Hello,

Do you have modified your "xend.conf" file to activate your
multibridge...
>From memory

#network-script network-multibridge

Or something like that.

2007/6/2, Jason Solan
<jsolan@jsolan.homelinux.com>:
>
> Hello,
> I have xen 3.0.4 setup on one of my systems (gentoo) with a couple of
> domU''s.
> I''m trying to setup an ipcop domU instance as a router/firewall
for my
> network.
> Unfortunately ipcop uses a 2.4 kernel and as i understand it there are
> no longer any 2.4 kernel patches for xen so i have to run it fully
> virtualized.
>
> My dom0 system has 3 nic cards.  Ideally i would hide 2 of them from
> dom0 and pass the pci directly into my ipcop domU, but from what i read
> this is not possible in a HVM.
>
> I use a custom script (taken from a debian site i believe) to create 3
> network bridges to pass to my domU''s
>
> dir=$(dirname "$0")
> "$dir/network-bridge" "$@" vifnum=0 netdev=eth0
bridge=xenbr0
> "$dir/network-bridge" "$@" vifnum=1 netdev=eth1
bridge=xenbr1
> "$dir/network-bridge" "$@" vifnum=2 netdev=eth2
bridge=xenbr2
>
> >From my experience, the network cards have to be up and active on dom0
> in order to get the traffic to pass through in a domU.  Is this correct?
>
> Basically i want to plug my cable modem into eth2, so the connection
> would pass into the domU, but not have the network up on eth2 on dom0.
> Is there anyway i can do this?
>
> My networking knowledge is pretty weak.
> Any help/advice is appreciated.
>
>
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