[Fedora-xen] 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5xen0 - no network for guest domains

[Aleksander Adamowski]

Hi!

I'm using xenguest-install.py to install a guest domain on x86_64.

The anaconda installer start up fine, but when I configure the network 
for the guest domain (be it DHCP or static IP), after trying to contact 
installation FTP server, I discover that the guest domain has no network 
connectivity at all - it cannot resolve the FTP server's hostname, or 
connect to it directly by its IP address; I cannot ping from other hosts 
or from dom0 to the guest domain.

The physical network controller is a Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme 
BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet using the tg3 driver.

The virtual network devices are created by Xen on domain 0:
# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:60:0B:ED:88 
          inet addr:192.168.254.208  Bcast:192.168.254.255  
Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::215:60ff:fe0b:ed88/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:475078 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:601247 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:99094177 (94.5 MiB)  TX bytes:322269097 (307.3 MiB)
          Interrupt:17

eth0:0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:60:0B:ED:88 
          inet addr:192.168.254.4  Bcast:192.168.254.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          Interrupt:17

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:80137 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:80137 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:288852189 (275.4 MiB)  TX bytes:288852189 (275.4 MiB)

vif1.0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF 
          inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:99 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:6 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:4158 (4.0 KiB)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

xenbr0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF 
          inet6 addr: fe80::200:ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:99 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:2772 (2.7 KiB)  TX bytes:468 (468.0 b)

I suspect that this may have something to do with x86_64 architecture 
and the tg3 driver. Any ideas?

-- 
Best Regards,
    Aleksander Adamowski
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