David, Exactly right for cause and cure.
Many thanks for this John On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 06:26:59PM +0000, David Edmondson wrote: > * [email protected] [2010-01-19 15:43:58] > > I created a DomU with a dedicated network connection > > > > script path='/usr/lib/xen/scripts/vif-dedicated' > > > > Having run the virtual machine I now destroy the domain, undefine it, > > change the script to > > > > script path='/usr/lib/xen/scripts/vif-vnic' > > > > define the domain and try to start it. This fails. If I change the > > assigned MAC address the newly defined virtual machine works. > > > > Bit of a b****r though as our central IT guys keep a MAC/IP register and > > I get annoying e-mails because the new MAC/IP relationship isn't logged. > > > > Any way to flush what is obviously a cached MAC address from Dom0 without > > a reboot? > > I'd guess that the MAC address you used has been set as the primary > address of the physical NIC that you dedicated (dladm show-phys -m). If > you change the primary address of the physical NIC (using 'ifconfig foo0 > ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx') it should be possible to create a VNIC which > uses that address. > > > I'd like to keep the old MAC address as we use the last 2 numbers > > of the IP address to form the last 4 digits of the MAC. > > dme. > -- > David Edmondson, Sun Microsystems, http://dme.org > -- John Landamore Department of Computer Science University of Leicester University Road, LEICESTER, LE1 7RH [email protected] Phone: +44 (0)116 2523410 Fax: +44 (0)116 2523604 _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
