Man, I wish. But thus far no luck. On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:54 PM, elventear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having the same problem with Xen. Have you been able to find any > workarounds? > > -- > networking stalls between domU using vif > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/246789 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in "xen-3.2" source package in Ubuntu: New > > Bug description: > I can't get networking to work properly between any two domU when using vif > on hardy 8.04.1 using xen-3.2. > > I set up two domU on private IPs in 192.168.1.0/24 using network-nat and > vif-nat, and observed the following behavior. > > *) Networking to and from the outside world worked just fine. > > *) Transferring a large file (50M) from one of the domU to dom0 worked fine > using several protocols (ssh, ftp, etc). > > *) Transferring a large file (50M) between the two domU stalls out after a > few megs have gone through, also seen using any protocol. > > > As a test, I then set up several domU using public IPs, using network-bridge > and vif-bridge. I saw exactly the same behavior as wtih the private IPs. > However, with the public IPs, if I stopped using vif, then networking worked > just fine. Meaning, if in the .cfg files for the domU, I set > > vif = [ '' ] > > and just set up the interfaces directly in the domU then I could transfer the > large file (50M) between the domU without trouble. > > I should also note that if I disable tcp checksumming on the interfaces in > the domU by uncommenting the line that reads > > # post-up ethtool -K eth0 tx off > > then I can transfer the file around. Though this causes all sorts of other > things to break. > > > SUMMARY: > > When using vif, I cannot reliably transfer files of any material size between > domU using any protocol I know how to test. > > Transferring files between domU and dom0, or between domU and any outside > server works just fine. > > I expected to be able to scp / ftp / etc files between two domU when using > vif to bridge. > > What I actually see is that if I'm using vif, a few megabytes will transfer > and then the transfer will stall, and I see this using many different > protocols. > > All of this was tested on HP proliant servers using the tg3 network driver. >
-- chris lea 310-709-4021 gpg key: http://www.chrislea.com/gpgkey.txt -- networking stalls between domU using vif https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/246789 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
