[CentOS] Strange XEN on CentOS HWaddr Address Issue
Christoph Maser
cmr at financial.com
Tue Aug 4 13:09:33 UTC 2009
Am Dienstag, den 04.08.2009, 14:43 +0200 schrieb Brett Serkez:
> Ran into a strange issue with XEN on CentOS that I think is specific
> to CentOS, which is why I'm starting by posting to this list first,
> I'll post on the XEN list depending on responses. My sense is this
> issue has something to do with how CentOS handles network setup on
> first boot of the XEN kernel.
>
> - Installed a brand new CentOS 5.3 server with minimal packages.
>
> - Installed XEN, modified grub.conf to boot off of the XEN kernel and rebooted.
>
> - After reboot, network connectivity was lost.
>
> - Investigation concluded the issue was that the HWaddr address of the
> physical NIC matched the fabricated HWaddr that XEN uses for most of
> its adapters: FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF.
When Xen starts does some trickery with your interfaces. You should see
FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF on device peth0 and the real MAC-address on device
eth0.
All Xen vif devices will show also MAC FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF. That is
totally normal.
Chris
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