So, I have set up Proxmox ve 2.0b.
It has a configured interface vmbr0 and is reachable trough that. It also has interfaces venet0 and eth0, which look unconfigured but eth0 seems to work under the bridge.
I then installed a guest from the debian-standard 6.0.4 template. The Network is in bridged mode (vmbr0). Inside that guest, I have interfaces eth0 (which looks good and has a mac) and venet0 (which has a veery long hw address consisting of only zeroes).
I now tried dhclient on the guest, to no avail. I tried on both interfaces, although I believe venet is for routed config and irrelevant here, so mostly eth0. I also did a tcpdump on the proxmox host, but no dhcp packages go through any of them. venet0 on the guest originally was down; I also tried dhclient after doing a "ifconfig venet0 up", didn't make a difference.
(The console doesn't support copy and paste, so I will have to type details, if relevant.) Surprising: The eth0 interface in the guest shows zeroes on all packet numbers, except "TX dropped": this shows 118. When I start more dhclient requests, this number rises. The interface seems to drop all dhcp requests!
I took a look at http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Network_Model, but found no help, alas. (No mention of venet and what it means, the relevant passage "Default Configuration (bridged)" doesn't specify if it's about host or guest and no info whatsoever about dhcp setup and how to achieve sth).
How do I make the bridge work? Any thought about the dropped requests?
Thanks in advance for help and insight, n.
It has a configured interface vmbr0 and is reachable trough that. It also has interfaces venet0 and eth0, which look unconfigured but eth0 seems to work under the bridge.
Code:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0a:e4:86:e2:ea
inet6 addr: fe80::20a:e4ff:fe86:e2ea/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3475224 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:200173 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:522807556 (498.5 MiB) TX bytes:32949456 (31.4 MiB)
Interrupt:16
venet0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
inet6 addr: fe80::1/128 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:3 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
vmbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0a:e4:86:e2:ea
inet addr:10.125.18.167 Bcast:10.125.19.255 Mask:255.255.252.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20a:e4ff:fe86:e2ea/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3173420 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:191258 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:425304783 (405.6 MiB) TX bytes:30870876 (29.4 MiB)
I then installed a guest from the debian-standard 6.0.4 template. The Network is in bridged mode (vmbr0). Inside that guest, I have interfaces eth0 (which looks good and has a mac) and venet0 (which has a veery long hw address consisting of only zeroes).
I now tried dhclient on the guest, to no avail. I tried on both interfaces, although I believe venet is for routed config and irrelevant here, so mostly eth0. I also did a tcpdump on the proxmox host, but no dhcp packages go through any of them. venet0 on the guest originally was down; I also tried dhclient after doing a "ifconfig venet0 up", didn't make a difference.
(The console doesn't support copy and paste, so I will have to type details, if relevant.) Surprising: The eth0 interface in the guest shows zeroes on all packet numbers, except "TX dropped": this shows 118. When I start more dhclient requests, this number rises. The interface seems to drop all dhcp requests!
I took a look at http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Network_Model, but found no help, alas. (No mention of venet and what it means, the relevant passage "Default Configuration (bridged)" doesn't specify if it's about host or guest and no info whatsoever about dhcp setup and how to achieve sth).
How do I make the bridge work? Any thought about the dropped requests?
Thanks in advance for help and insight, n.