Thanks a lot. Of course the answer doesn't make me happy, but it spares me
the need to do further experimentation.

But am I correct in assuming that the 3-Device-limit does only apply for one
domU? Then I could cascade two firewalls? One using bridges0-2 and the other
one bridges2-3

Bernhard


Neobiker wrote:
> 
> XEN only supports 3 virtual Net-Devices!
> We have to use a newer XEN Kernel with FrontendPCI Support to get the NICs
> physically attached in the DomU.
> 
> neobiker
> 
> bgschaid wrote:
>> 
>> Hi!
>> 
>> I set up a EFW 2.1.2 the way it is described by Bill Pye (EFW in XEN on
>> CentOS5) using the network-fw script by Neobiker.
>> 
>> The original setup was for 3 interfaces all of which were bridged to
>> three physical interfaces in the machine. This works fine. I then decided
>> that I wanted a fourth interface on the firewall and added a
>> dummy-network-device. 
>> 
>> Now my problem is: all 4 bridges (eth0-2 and dummy0) get created, but
>> when the EFW-domU is booted with "xm create -c efw" it hangs at this
>> message (I'll append the complete boot message at the end, but here I
>> show only the last few lines):
>> 
>> Creating root device
>> Mounting root filesystem
>> kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
>> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
>> Switching to new root
>> INIT: version 2.85 booting
>> Mounting /proc filesystem
>> 
>> Now, I don't think that the dummy device is the problem, because I can
>> boot the EFW with any combination of three bridged devices (But not with
>> 4)
>> 
>> Could anybody enligthen me what might be the problem:
>>  - Does EFW-2.1.2-Community only allow 3 network devices?
>>  - Is the problem that I did the original configuration with only 3
>> devices?
>>  - Did I miss something configuring Xen?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Bernhard
>> 
>> PS: The full boot message:
>> 
>> --- snipped ---
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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