Great. Sorry for sounding stupid (and cowardish). This means that I will only
have to modify (==reinstall) the domU. No changes on the dom0 (a CentOS 5)
will be required? I mean: I won't have to recompile the dom0-kernel?


Neobiker wrote:
> 
> Of course, you can cascade 2x EFW this way, but as you see, i'm currently
> testing 2.6.18 XEN kernel in EFW 2.2 Beta1 where we can use PCI-Devices
> (e.g. Network Cards) within the DomU.
> neobiker
> 
> bgschaid wrote:
>> 
>> 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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