Interfaces de red en Xen

Cuando se arranca con kernel Xen en Centos 5.1 genera cuatro interfaces más de red (suponiendo que tenemos solamente una placa de red): peth0, vif0.0, virbr0 y xenbr0.

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:76:6F:2D:6C
inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::216:76ff:fe6f:2d6c/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:26381 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:21968 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:36205072 (34.5 MiB) TX bytes:1598392 (1.5 MiB)

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:1263 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1263 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2078804 (1.9 MiB) TX bytes:2078804 (1.9 MiB)

peth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:26404 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:22041 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:36210479 (34.5 MiB) TX bytes:1730806 (1.6 MiB)
Interrupt:21 Base address:0x4000

vif0.0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:21968 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:26381 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1598392 (1.5 MiB) TX bytes:36205072 (34.5 MiB)

virbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::200:ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:53 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:9337 (9.1 KiB)

xenbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
inet6 addr: fe80::200:ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:139 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:46934 (45.8 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

Lo que hace es crear dos bridges:

• virbr0: Sin interfaces
• xenbr0: Interfaces peth0 y vif0.0

Cuando se levanta un sistema operativo en el DomU cambia a:

• virbr0: vifN.0
• xenbr0: Interfaces peth0 y vif0.0