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On Tuesday 11 January 2011 14:09:00 Konstantinos Agouros wrote: |
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> In <1294686017.7979@rumba> elwood@×××××××.de (Konstantinos Agouros) writes: |
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> >Hi, |
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> >I just upgraded my box to a phenom and an intel quad gbit card. |
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> >The card is a 82575GB. It is recognized (I use xen-sources 2.6.34-r4) and |
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> >also tried the latest driver available at intel (2.4.12). Ifconfig |
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> >show the interfaces mac addresses etc. |
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> >However I do not get a link. Neither on a switch nor on a laptop |
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> >with gbit interface. |
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> >I found googling that there seems to be an issue with xen and this card/ |
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> >chip. Anybody knows a way out of it? Especially since the card should have |
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> >some virtualization optimizations? |
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> OK more googling gave me the answer: |
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> ethtool -K tx off |
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> Now the question is: |
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> what is the 'gentooest' way to put this into /etc/conf.d/net? |
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> From reading the example file I would guess a preup() function. |
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> Also: is /etc/conf.d/net the place to put in the bridge definitions for |
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> the xen guests? If yes, how do I get it to create empty bridges for inter- |
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> guest communications? |
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In case you haven't yet, it may be a worth you having a look at: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xen-guide.xml |
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and the way it suggests you create bridged interfaces. There's also some |
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links at the bottom of the page that may be of interest. |
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HTH. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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