Did not feel like stealing the email thread so posting this one with new subject
I am struggling with ethernet bonding on ubuntu 8.04. My configuration is a
touch different as I have 3 ethernet interfaces. I want eth0 to be independent
but want to try ethernet aggregation for eth1 and eth2. i.e. Load balancing
thingie.
So what I am doing is that I let xen bootup with normal network-bridge script
and it creates eth0 bridge (et al) and all works. Eth1 and Eth2 are enslaved to
Bond0. I am able to use Bond0 to ping/ssh to other machines. So I am sure that
ethernet are bonded correctly.
Routing table for this configuration at dom0 (without Xenbr added) is
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.4.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 bond0
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
default xxxx 0.0.0.0 UG 100 0 0 eth0
#brctl show
bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces
eth0 8000.00d06809191a no peth0
Now I struggle with Xenbr creation (call it brbond). After bring up the brbond
my dom0 is as follows:-
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.4.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 brbond
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
default xxxx 0.0.0.0 UG 100 0 0 eth0
#brctl show
bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces
brbond 8000.00d06809191b no bond0
eth0 8000.00d06809191a no peth0
I am able to ping anywhere from dom0 (sanity check).
Now comes the interesting part.... I fire up by domu. The /etc/network/interface
is set to get IP address from dhcp server... it comes up. It gets the IP
addresses from dhcp server. so far so good..
The problem: I cannot ping 192.168.4.XX (i.e. .4.x subnet) from this domU and no
other machine (be it virtual or not) can ping this domU. The dom0 (hosting this
domU) can ping and get replys from domU using eth1. At random my domU is able to
communicate with other machine, but its random.
The routing table for domU is.
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.4.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
default xxxx 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
On dom0 the brctl show looks fine,
bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces
brbond 8000.00d06809191b no bond0
vif3.1
eth0 8000.00d06809191a no peth0
vif3.0
Further inspection shows that domU ARP table has incomplete entries. The domU
cannot get any thing related to 192.168.4.x network (except for its host
domain). From other machines, when I ping this domain there are no replies, but
ARP does contain the mac address for this IP / machine. Manually adding ARP
makes this problem go away.
Can someone please guide/point me to decipher what is going on.
Regards,
Muhammad Atif
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ferenc Wagner" <wferi@niif.hu>
To: "Sassy Natan" <sassyn@gmail.com>
Cc: xen-users@lists.xensource.com
Sent: Thursday, December 4, 2008 3:55:30 AM (GMT+1000) Auto-Detected
Subject: [Xen-users] Re: Fwd: bonding ethernet and xen 3.2.1 or later.
"Sassy Natan" <sassyn@gmail.com> writes:
> I hope it is ok to ask this by email, since I have spent like 4 days trying
> to configure XEN with bonding.
It would have been better to ask this on the list.
> I saw your post on
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.xen.user/41406/focus=41511
> ans some other links like:
>
http://www.performancemagic.com/Dell1950_MD3000i_Xen_Debian_iSCSI_RDAC/Networking.html
> http://www.debian-administration.org/users/lters/weblog/14
>
> but i think you are right that it is better to configure network devices
> using OS and not XEN Scripts
Most of the above is obsolete in Lenny, where you can easily configure
bonding and bridging from /etc/network/interfaces *alone*.
> I did the following: (using debian lenny RC1 with xen 3.2.1 on amd64)
>
>
> # The loopback network interface
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> # The primary network interface
> allow-hotplug eth0
> allow-hotplug eth1
> auto bond0
> iface bond0 inet manual
> # Bonding Options
> pre-up /sbin/modprobe -v bonding -o bond0 mode=0 miimon=100
> downdelay=200 updelay=200
> pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up
> pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth1 up
> pre-up /sbin/ifconfig bond0 up
> pre-up /sbin/ifenslave bond0 eth0
> pre-up /sbin/ifenslave bond0 eth1
> pre-up /usr/sbin/brctl addbr br0
> pre-up /sbin/ifconfig br0 up
> pre-up /usr/sbin/brctl addif br0 bond0
> pre-up /usr/sbin/brctl stp br0 off
> pre-up /usr/sbin/brctl setfd br0 0
> post-down /usr/sbin/brctl delif br0 bond0
> post-down /sbin/ifconfig br0 down
> post-down /usr/sbin/brctl delbr br0
> post-down /sbin/ifenslave -d bond0 eth1
> post-down /sbin/ifenslave -d bond0 eth0
> post-down /sbin/ifconfig bond0 down
> post-down /sbin/ifconfig eth1 down
> post-down /sbin/ifconfig eth0 down
> # This might cause Kernel Panic !!!
> # post-down rmmod bond0
>
> auto br0
> iface br0 inet static
> address 192.168.0.1
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> network 192.168.0.0
> broadcast 192.168.0.0
> gateway 192.168.0.254
> # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if
> installed
> dns-nameservers 192.168.0.6
> dns-search primesense.com
>
> everything looks fine
No, that looks horrible. You mix up manual bond and bridge setup
instead of simply using the OS facilities. Just adapt Massimiliano''s
solution, which you quoted first. Once you have something that simple
which doesn''t work, ask again (on the list).
--
Good luck,
Feri.
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