Re: Problem on MAC address

On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Stephen Liu wrote:

Hi folks,


Debian Etch (both Host and Guest)
Xen


On cloning disk.img I suppose it also copies the MAC address of the
original image to the new image resulting in "ping hostname" unable to
find the new hostname.


Following is my test;

# dd if=/vserver/domains/xen5.satimis.com/disk.img
of=/vserver/domains/xen6.satimis.com/disk.img bs=4k

# dd if=/vserver/domains/xen5.satimis.com/swap.img
of=/vserver/domains/xen6.satimis.com/swap.img bs=4k


# xm list --long xen5.satimis.com
(domain
(domid 3)
(on_crash restart)
(uuid e1074e82-9bbc-8fcd-2e74-e6ab66a3017d)
(uuid 18904eab-6d22-da74-79f0-c86198a01e4a)
(script vif-bridge)
(ip 192.168.0.115)
(mac 00:16:3e:32:ab:e7)
(type netfront)
(backend 0)
)
)
# xm list --long xen6.satimis.com
(domain
(domid 2)
(on_crash restart)
(uuid 07a8b42b-acfd-ec79-ce19-83f843564db1)
(uuid bbc3e77d-e001-90f2-73f6-1d2a042c6e2b)
(script vif-bridge)
(ip 192.168.0.116)
(mac 00:16:3e:0a:c0:fb)
(type netfront)
(backend 0)

MAC Address

xen5.satimis.com :-
(mac 00:16:3e:32:ab:e7)


xen6.satimis.com
(mac 00:16:3e:0a:c0:fb)


# nano /etc/network/interfaces
making following change

iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.116 = mac 00:16:3e:0a:c0:fb
gateway 192.168.0.1
netmask 255.255.255.0


Remark:-

Also tried;
address 192.168.0.116 = MAC of mac 00:16:3e:0a:c0:fb
address 192.168.0.116 = 00:16:3e:0a:c0:fb
address 192.168.0.116 = MAC of 00:16:3e:0a:c0:fb


None of them worked.


# /etc/init.d/networking restart
Reconfiguring network interfaces...=: Host name lookup failure
ifconfig: `--help' gives usage information.
Failed to bring up eth0.
done.


# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:3E:0A:C0:FB
inet addr:192.168.0.116 Bcast:192.168.0.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::216:3eff:fe0a:c0fb/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:37 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:31 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3154 (3.0 KiB) TX bytes:3138 (3.0 KiB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)


Please advise how to fix the problem. TIA


B.R.
Stephen L

To change or set the mac address in /etc/network/interfaces the syntax is:

hwaddress ether 00:16:3e:0a:c0:fb

But, you really shouldn't have to do this in xen, xen should take care of
that for you and present the mac address to your vm.

Jeff




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