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This article is about a strange network problem occuring when used bridging in a XEN environment.
Symptoms

Some DomU is not reachable from the network anymore.
The problem persists after restarting the DomU (all: reboot, shutdown+create, destroy+create).
Possible: The DomU still has a virtual NIC, if pings are send from DomU via console only arp-requests are seen on the [...]

This article is about setting up Endian 2.3 on a XEN machine without hardware virtualization (hvm).
We work in a shared office space. It’s none of those big anonymous spaces where you can rent in on a monthly basis, but it does not belong to us alone. We share it with p4930 (architects) and control-b (we [...]