The machine in question is at my workplace. By default, in our network there is a websense proxy setup. I need to setup this machine to go through the proxy. The proxyaddress has the form of http://ipaddress:8081/msn.pac. I downloaded the script file, took the proxy ip from there and manually entered it in yast. Entered the domain user name and password, and then set the network card to configure through DHCP. It all worked without a problem. I then changed that to manual and entered an ip address, mask, dns, gateway in order to setup an internal ftp. That also worked, but I had to remove the br0 bridge card created by Xen VM. I set the routing table manually that time because apparently, even though route -nee was showing the rt, in yast it was not configure, and firefox said it could not access the proxy.
Once the routing table was set internet was running. I now tried to setup Xen again, and needed a bridge card. I tried adding it manually, and at the step 2 of 2 under Configure Network Interface in VM Manager, in the Choose interface(s) to bridge: I selected my default eth0. From that After I clicked finish, everything stopped working. The connection to the internet doesn’t work, yast proxy test fails saying it could not find a route, and firefox says the proxy is refusing connections.
I tried to remove the bridge, and I’ve tried to delete and re-edit eth0, but with no use. I tried manual configuration, DHCP, manually set routing table but nothing seems to work. I tried to manually delete the ifconfig files, and have them be recreated - failed as well.
I’ve made quite a mess, and I could fix it by re-installing everything but I would like to learn what I screwed up and fix it if possible. Any idea is more than welcomed :). Thank you