Apparently I had some mail in the queue on my laptop... On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 09:44:15AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > 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. > well, that's just plain frustrating. It's got me worried because my xen setup is working great in etch... might have to leave it there for a while. A
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