I'm running OpenSUES 10.2 on a Pentium4 system where I have installed XEN and some guests. One of the guests is a (opensuse 10.2) firewall with 5 NICs. Since we have the limit of max 3 vifs' I'm exporting 2 with help of pciback. This works fine most of the time but sometimes the guest doesn't find the 2 direct exported ports ("lspci" returns nothing). It seems to never work if I reboot the guest and if I shutdown/create it works most of the time but not always. What can I do to make sure it always works? Where should I look for the problem ? Config data: On the host (dom0) I have root@dom0# cat /etc/modprobe.conf.local options pciback hide=(0000:03:02.1)(0000:03:03.1) install sunhme /sbin/modprobe pciback ; /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install sunhme root@dom0# cat /etc/xen/vm/worf disk = [ 'file:/var/lib/xen/images/worf/hda,hda,w' ] memory = 256 vcpus = 1 builder = 'linux' name = 'worf' # vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3e:00:0f:fb, bridge=xenbr0', 'mac=00:16:3e:00:ac:fb, bridge=xenbr1','mac=00:16:3e:c0:a8:fb, bridge=xenbr2' ] pci=['0000:03:02.1','0000:03:03.1'] localtime = 0 on_poweroff = 'destroy' on_reboot = 'restart' on_crash = 'restart' extra = ' TERM=xterm' bootloader = '/usr/lib/xen/boot/domUloader.py' bootentry = 'hda1:/boot/vmlinuz-xen,/boot/initrd-xen' On the guest I configured the network ports with "yast lan" and after making the MAC static (it changed after each boot) it works whenever the bypassed nics are available. root@domU:~# cat /etc/modprobe.conf.local options sunhme macaddr=0x08,0x00,0x20,0x00,0x00,0x49 Both host and guest runs a fully patched opensuse 10.2 -32bit -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Techwiz, Peter Sjoberg PGP key (12F506C8) on keyserver & homepage Key fingerprint = 3DC2 CEBA 1590 B41A 3780 955A DB42 02BB 12F5 06C8 mailto:peters-opensuse AT techwiz.ca http://www.techwiz.ca/~peters -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org