-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Herbert Herbert Poetzl schrieb: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 01:17:10PM +0100, Oliver Welter wrote: > Herbert Poetzl schrieb: >>>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:58:46AM +0100, Oliver Welter wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> KwangErn Liew schrieb: >>>>>>> Oliver Welter wrote: >>>>>>>> I am running a hostbox with two vlan interfaces, everything is doing >>>>>>>> fine so far. Today I tried to add another interface to one of my guests. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> The current config has 3 interfaces all in the same vlan - works. >>>>>>>> I added one new interface from the other vlan - when I now startup the >>>>>>>> guest I get "RTNETLINK answers: Numerical result out of range". >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> The IP Adress is not set on the host and so not avail inside the geust - >>>>>>>> adding the IP to the host by hand and launching the guest still results >>>>>>>> in the error message shown, but the new interface is operational >>>>>>>> afterwards. >>>>>>> Knowing how you added the interface would be helpful to pinpoint what >>>>>>> went wrong. >>>>>>> >>>> Simply using the "ip" command: ip addr add <IP>/<Maskbits> dev vlan3 >>>> >>>>> guest config (specifically the interfaces section) >>>>> and a description of the network setup on the host > The Host has two vlan's over the physical interface eth0: > vlan3 82.135.58.0/25 > vlan4 212.18.24.192/26 > > one IP of each vlan is assigned to the host, several guests use IPs from > both vlans. > > The guest is setup with following interface configuration, interfaces > are numbered 3x on vlan3 and 4x on vlan4 > > 30/* > dev: vlan3 >> ~~~~~ 5 chars > ip: 82.135.58.36 > name: www1_customer1 >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 14 chars > prefix: 25 > >> maximum length for network interface (and alias) names >> is 15 chars (e.g. eth0:123456789a), so you end up using >> the very same name more more than one of your guests :) > >> I'd suggest to drop the alias names completely, unless >> you have a good reason for them, in which case, you should >> make them unique within the 15 chars. I knew about the 15 chars but didnt knew that the interface name is included into the limit :( So shortening the names seems to work. What do you mean with "drop completely"? Removing the "names" file from the interface directories? Oliver - -- Protect your environment - close windows and adopt a penguin! PGP-Key: 3B2C 8095 A7DF 8BB5 2CFF 8168 CAB7 B0DD 3985 1721 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmWm6gACgkQyrew3TmFFyFxXACfcjePkw2nqIYNDzp7AVmUMg3B DvwAoIE4Z6k4mbc1eGObVwV/2jqPmEef =Twz8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----