Re: Xen in Etch, basic setup

["Steve Lamb" <grey@dmiyu.org>]

On Sun, April 6, 2008 11:09 am, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>> auto eth1
>> iface eth1 inet static
>>         address 192.168.1.21
>>         netmask 255.255.255.0
>>         gateway 192.168.1.1
>>
>> auto eth1:1
>> iface eth1:1 inet static
>>         address 192.168.1.1
>>         netmask 255.255.255.0

> why are you running multiple interfaces on eth1 like this? Is this
> something you need?

    Yes.  But actually I pasted the interfaces file from when Dom0 was
running as the gateway.  Normally the eth1:1 and eth0 auto lines are
commented out.  To explain eth1:0 and eth1:1, there was a time where I
was bouncing between this machine being the router and a wireless router
being the router.  Stupid building practices in the house I am renting. 
Every time I swapped between those two IPs I'd have to reconfigure all
my machines to look for the Squid proxy in a new location.  Normally
after my wife got frustrated that the proxy disappeared.  So in the name
of marital bliss I decided to just leave the machine on .21 permanently
and alias .1 to it whenever it is acting as the router.

> xenbr interface automatically. and breakdown that eth1 setup to just a
> basic one (simplify, right?) and see what happens.

    I have done that.  I get anything from the bridge getting the IP to
nothing having the IP to no bridge/vif/veths at all.  At this point I'm
going to uninstall all the packages and start over.  However since I
know how to get it working thanks to my test on my laptop I'll just
duplicate that setup.  Really though, testing is a tad flubbed.

-- 
Steve Lamb