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 --- >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Adding-a-fourth-interface-to-a-Endian-2.1.2-in-Xen-domU-tf4793058.html#a13733167 Sent from the efw-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Efw-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user
