Re: [libvirt-users] Can't get cable connection working on virtual router machine

Can you please drop a rough diagram here? I think you are routing through this VM and must have shared the host interface. - ajey On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Phill Edwards <philledwards(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > I'm pretty new to KVM and have a KVM CentOS 7.1 hypervisor running a few > VMs. I'm moving all my VMs from an ESXi host as I want to use KVM in > future. Most of my VMs are working except for one which is running a Sophos > UTM router (Sophos UTM is similar to products like pfSense > <https://www.pfsense.org/>;, Smoothwall <http://www.smoothwall.org/> etc). > > The host has 3 physical NICs which are configured on the Sophos VM as: > 1) LAN (fixed IP) > 2) DMZ (fixed IP) > 3) WAN (which is directly plugged into a cable modem for the internet > connection and is configured DHCP). > > I have imported the settings from the "old" Sophos machine so I know the > configuration of the new one is identical to the old one. I have even tried > configuring the NICs to have the same MAC addresses as the old one. > > The problem is that no matter what I try I cannot get the WAN NIC to get > an internet link up and running with my cable modem. I have re-installed > the VM countless times, turned off the modem and VM, done a factory reset > of the modem, and, as I mentioned, ensured the MAC addresses are the same. > Nothing I try has been successful. > > The network interfaces on the new Sophos VM look like this: > 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast > state UP group default qlen 1000 > link/ether 00:0c:29:79:d4:de brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > inet 192.168.0.254/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global eth0 > valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever > 3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1472 qdisc pfifo_fast > state UP group default qlen 1000 > link/ether 00:0c:29:79:d4:e8 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > 4: eth2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast > state UP group default qlen 1000 > link/ether 00:0c:29:79:d4:f2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > inet 192.168.1.254/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth2 > valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever > > I also found this in the /var/log/system.log of the Sophos VM: > 2015:08:29-12:04:05 sop dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 > port 67 interval 6 > 2015:08:29-12:04:11 sop dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 > port 67 interval 13 > 2015:08:29-12:04:24 sop dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 > port 67 interval 2 > 2015:08:29-12:04:26 sop dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received. > > I have shut down firewalld on the KVM host so I don't think there are any > firewall rules blocking this. > > As soon as I fire up the original Sophos VM on ESXi the internet > connection works perfectly again. > > If I can't get this VM running on KVM it's a show-stopper. Can anyone > suggest what might be going on that is preventing the WAN link from > connecting? Or suggest a way of troubleshooting this? > > Thanks in advance. >