I have a problem on a Xen virtual machine (running latest Debian), when I try to configure a second failover IP address. OVH reports that my IP is misconfigured and they complaint they receive a massive quantity of ARP packets from this IPs, so they are going to block my IP unless I fix this issue.

I suspect there's a routing issue, but I don't know (and can't find any useful info on the provider's website, and their support doesn't provide me a valid solution, just bounce me to their online - useless - guides).

My /etc/network/interfaces look like this:

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
    address AAA.AAA.AAA.AAA
    netmask 255.255.255.255
    broadcast AAA.AAA.AAA.AAA
    post-up route add 000.000.000.254 dev eth0
    post-up route add default default gw 000.000.000.254 dev eth0

# Secondary NIC
auto eth0:0
iface eth0:0 inet static
    address BBB.BBB.BBB.BBB
    netmask 255.255.255.255
    broadcast BBB.BBB.BBB.BBB

And the routing table is:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
000.000.000.254 0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 eth0
0.0.0.0         000.000.000.254 0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

In these examples (true IP addresses are replaced by fake ones, guess why :)), 000.000.000.000 is my main server's IP address (dom0), 000.000.000.254 is the default gateway OVH recommends, AAA.AAA.AAA.AAA is the first IP Failover and BBB.BBB.BBB.BBB is the second one.

I need both AAA.AAA.AAA.AAA and BBB.BBB.BBB.BBB to be publicly reachable from Internet and point to my domU, and to be able to access Internet from inside the virtual machine (domU). I am using eth0 and eth0:0 because due to OVH support, I have to assign both IPs to the same MAC address and then create a virtual eth0:0 interface for the second IP.

Any suggestion? What am I doing wrong? How can I stop OVH complaining about ARP flood?

Many thanks in advance, DS