[Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

[Paul van der Vlis]

Laurent Léonard schreef:
> Le jeudi 09 octobre 2008 à 08:30, Paul van der Vlis a écrit :
>> I think the translation is:
>> ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device.
> 
> msgid "No such device"
> msgstr "Onjuist apparaat"
> Yes you are right. 

I have changed /etc/environment into English, and rebooted the machine.
----
LANGUAGE="en_US:en_GB:en"
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
----

> OK let's try manually : 

Really thanks for your help.

> # Shut down the network
> /etc/init.d/networking stop

xen:/etc/network# /etc/init.d/networking stop
Deconfiguring network interfaces...done.

> # At this time ifconfig should only show you the loopback interface and the 
> routing table should be empty. 

xen:/etc/network# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
xen:/etc/network# ifconfig
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:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:306 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:306 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:32497 (31.7 KiB)  TX bytes:32497 (31.7 KiB)
xen:/etc/network#

OK.

> # Create the bridge
> brctl addbr xenbr0

xen:/etc/network# brctl addbr xenbr0
[167202.190950] xenbr0: Dropping NETIF_F_UFO since no NETIF_F_HW_CSUM
feature.

> # Add the physical interface to the bridge
> brctl addif xenbr0 eth1

xen:/etc/network# brctl addif xenbr0 eth1brctl addif xenbr0 eth1
interface eth1brctl does not exist!
xen:~# ifconfig
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:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:3596 (3.5 KiB)  TX bytes:3596 (3.5 KiB)

xen:~#

I stopped here because of the errors. I don't see anything interesting
in /var/log/messages, syslog or dmesg. Only this is this in syslog:
Oct 10 09:54:41 xen kernel: [  383.883601] xenbr0: Dropping NETIF_F_UFO
since no NETIF_F_HW_CSUM feature.

With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.





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