[Users] networking with debian based templates

[E Frank Ball III]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 12:39:11AM +0100, albinootje wrote:
> existx at existx.net wrote:
>
> hi,
>
>> I'm trying to use the following templates:
>>
>> debian-4.0-i386-minimal
> ---cut for brevity---
>> venet0    Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr  
>> 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
>>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  P-t-P:127.0.0.1  Bcast:0.0.0.0   
>> Mask:255.255.255.255
>>           UP BROADCAST POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>           TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:588 (588.0 b)
>>
>> venet0:0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr  
>> 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
>>           inet addr:public.ip.add.ress  P-t-P:public.ip.add.ress  
>> Bcast:0.0.0.0  Mask:255.255.255.255
>>           UP BROADCAST POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>>
>> Why does it create two venet0 interfaces with one being loopback and 
>> one being my public IP address?
>>
>> Of course, there's no network connectivity with this setup. 
>
> i'm using a self-build debian etch template on a debian etch machine,
> and i see the same thing, but it works without any problems since many  
> months


The CentOS templates do the same thing, and networking is
working fine for me too:


venet0    Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  P-t-P:127.0.0.1  Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP BROADCAST POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:11110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:10901 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:4268320 (4.0 MiB)  TX bytes:1105071 (1.0 MiB)

venet0:0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          inet addr:141.121.58.181  P-t-P:141.121.58.181 Bcast:141.121.58.181  Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP BROADCAST POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1


I see your Bcast for venet0:0 is 0.0.0.0 and mine (for CentOS) is the
public IP address.  On my Debian (and Ubuntu) VZs the Broadcast is
0.0.0.0.  Wierd.


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   E Frank Ball                efball at efball.com