What happens if you just remove the ifcfg file for this interface? What does Xen do with it? What if you have an ifcfg file, but setup no IP address on it?
Bear with me Ross, my Linux skills are new :) Won't CentOS create the ifcfg on the fly when it boots (I think thats what happens, I may have tried and I wont have acess to the box untill tonight). I will check into these points.
Of course you can pass the NIC through to the PVM which I suspect is what you are thinking of doing.
Yup, so I hoped to make that work (I imagine its most secure)! Somehting is wrong with the way I am blocking it, I don't what though yet! I tried to compile from source to make the menuconfig change and I cant make that work... Can you set the pciback option in the srpm's build routine somehow? I have no issues making the srpm.
There is shorewall which is in the repo. Or maybe smoothwall can run inside a PVM?
Thats good to know, I will check both out!
Thanks! jlc