In <1294686017.7...@rumba> [email protected] (Konstantinos Agouros) writes:

>Hi,

>I just upgraded my box to a phenom and an intel quad gbit card.
>The card is a 82575GB. It is recognized (I use xen-sources 2.6.34-r4) and
>also tried the latest driver available at intel (2.4.12). Ifconfig
>show the interfaces mac addresses etc. 

>However I do not get a link. Neither on a switch nor on a laptop
>with gbit interface. 

>I found googling that there seems to be an issue with xen and this card/
>chip. Anybody knows a way out of it? Especially since the card should have
>some virtualization optimizations?
OK more googling gave me the answer:

ethtool -K tx off

Now the question is: 
what is the 'gentooest' way to put this into /etc/conf.d/net?
>From reading the example file I would guess a preup() function.

Also: is /etc/conf.d/net the place to put in the bridge definitions for
the xen guests? If yes, how do I get it to create empty bridges for inter-
guest communications?

Regards,

Konstantin
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