I can't reproduce this on my lucid testbox. Do you have networkmanager or wicd installed? Leaving wicd installed, for instance, caused my box to frequently add a duplicate default route, which stopped my network.
Can you gather the output, both when network is up, and while it is paused, of: netstat -nr ifconfig -a brctl show ps -ef ==== To show precisely how I tried to reproduce, I did: apt-get remove network-manager apt-get remove wicd cat > /etc/network/interfaces << EOF auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet manual auto br0 iface br0 inet dhcp bridge_ports eth0 bridge_stp off bridge_fd 0 bridge_maxwait 0 EOF (rebooted) Then I cloned two working lucid server images qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b s1.img s2.img qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b s1.img s3.img MACADDR1=`ifconfig br0 | head -2 | tail -1 | awk -F: '{ print $2 '}| awk '{ print $1 '}` MACADDR2=`ifconfig br0 | head -2 | tail -1 | awk -F: '{ print $2 '}| awk '{ print $1 '}` I started the first with kvm: kvm -drive file=s2.img,if=scsi,index=0,boot=on -m 1G -smp 2 -net nic,macaddr=$MACADDR1,model=virtio -net tap,ifname=tap1,script=no,downscript=no and hooked up its interface on the host: ifconfig tap1 0.0.0.0 up brctl addif br0 tap1 then ran dhclient on the guest. Then I started the second host the same way (with s3.img, tap2, and $MACADDR2). The whole time I left a terminal open with 'ping google.com', and never saw any hiccoughs. Please let me know if any of this gives you an idea of what else I should do to reproduce. -- kvm images losing connectivity w/bridged network https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/584048 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs