xen network problems

ive followed the howtoforge guide for debian etch repository xen install.

ive got two network interfaces, for which eth1 is the one online.

So i define (network-bridge network-script netdev=eth1) in xend-config.sxp.

The problem is when i then boot up the xen kernel i cant get online with host(dom0) but the domains(domU) gets online. What have i forgotten?

 

What's the output of

Code:

ifconfig

and

Code:

route -nee

on dom0? Any errors in the logs?

 

cant copy/paste so i will give as much info as possible:

ifconfig shows:

eth1 - public ip adress
lo - 127.0.0.1
peth1 - no ip adress
vif0.1, vif1.0, vif 2.0 and xenbr1 - no ipadresses

route -nee shows eth1 in routes. one from gateway and one to gateway.

cant understand how the vms can be online but not the host.

 

What's in /etc/network/interfaces on dom0?

 

allow-hotplug eth1
iface eth1 inet static
address <publicip>
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast <broadcastip>
gateway <gatewayip>

was thinking about debugging the network-bridge script to see if i can get any errors.

 

That's all? No loopback device (lo)?

 

yeah sorry forgot that. lo as by default installed. any hints to what could be wrong. Should be the bridge right?

 

Are there spaces in front of address, broadcast, netmask, and gateway? Can you post the whole file again and wrap it in code tags here (that's the # button in the editor here)?

 

it works when im not booting xen kernel so i guess the problem has to lie somewhere else.