[Fedora-xen] Networking problem with host

Ben bench at silentmedia.com
Tue Apr 4 16:52:08 UTC 2006


Xen plays with your networking a lot, and the default way it does things seems 
quite awkward to me if you have more than a single interface. I've found this to 
be quite helpful:

http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenNetworkingSuse?highlight=%28XenNetworking%29


On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Mark A Heilpern wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm using FC5 and have near zero experience with Xen, and I'm running into a problem I can't locate answers for.
> 
> First... my system without Xen running: I have two ethernet interfaces, eth0 and eth1, where eth1 is connected to the internet and eth0 is my private
> NAT'd network; this system is my firewall. I'm using Firestarter to configure things and I'm able to connect FC5 to any location I wish, internal and
> external, and my internal machines are able to connect to the firewall as well as the internet. Both eth0 and eth1 are configured as static IPs, and
> all machines in my private network are static IPs (
> 
> 
> Now, my firewall is also running other services and I'm interested in moving these services to their own virtual guest machines eventually. First
> though, I think I should be able to boot into a Xen-enabled kernel and have the same level of functionality I currently have without Xen. My kernel
> boots fine and seems to operate but I'm not able to do much with networking... I can't connect to any machine (through eth0 or eth1) from my Xen0
> kernel, and my private network machines cannot connect to my firewall or through my firewall.
> 
> I see many posts where people have guest O/S networking issues... but in my case I haven't even reached the stage of trying to create a guest O/S.
> 
> Thanks for any tips towards my getting this resolved!
> 
> 
>




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