Rich Wales wrote:
> OK, I finally managed to figure out what was going haywire in my Xen
> configuration.  It turns out that if you have a routed Xen setup and
> are using a non-default network interface in dom0 (i.e., something
> other than eth0), you need to explicitly pass the interface name (via
> a netdev= parameter) to BOTH network-route AND vif-route.  I hadn't
> realized it was necessary to give the netdev= parameter to vif-route.
> 
> After adding this parameter, I was able to set up Shorewall to do SNAT
> on outbound connections from my domU's (absolutely essential if they
> were going to be able to connect out to the Internet).
> 
> Hopefully this tidbit of knowledge can be mentioned in some FAQ's and
> how-to's, so other people won't need to suffer the way I did (and
> perhaps just give up like I almost did).
> 

This information is indeed important -- in Xen FAQs and HOWTOs. So I
suggest that you post to those folks.

-Tom
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