Re: [Aoetools-discuss] AoE does not discover

[Tracy R R. <tr...@ul...>]

roland wrote:
> yes - sure, initrd is probably the better option for now.
> 
> i just wanted to point out, that there are probably "issues" with discovery 
> when using aoe statically compiled.

Yes, I thought being statically compiled might be an issue so I 
recompiled the kernel with aoe as a module and put the module in my 
initrd. Now the initrd boots up and drops me to a shell so I can 
troubleshoot things. I manually insmod, get a message in the dmesg about 
aoe being loaded, but then I have the exact same problem as before. Also 
if I look at the ifconfig output it shows no packets having been sent or 
received on the interface. I tried not specifying which interface aoe 
should discover on (in which case I understand it should try all 
interfaces) and I have tried specifying the particular interface. Not a 
single packet registers as having been sent or received on the 
interface. Very strange. The only weird thing going on here is that I 
have xen compiled in. Xen sets up some bridges and other things. Could 
that be causing problems with AoE? Maybe AoE is not doing discover on 
the normal ethernet interfaces but is instead doing it on one of the 
bridges or something? I will do some more tests this afternoon to try to 
determine that. I might even compile up a non-xen version of this kernel 
just to see if that is a factor. I know other people have run xen and 
aoe before (they seem practically made for each other) but I have never 
seen anyone mention having to work around this problem.


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