Cannot ping or ssh into KVM guests after RHEL 6.5 kernel update

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Cannot ping or ssh into KVM guests after RHEL 6.5 update on KVM hypervisor and guest

  • Network access is restored after restarting the guest network interfaces with:

ifdown eth0
ifup etho0 
service network restart

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 (guest and host)
  • KVM virtualization
  • Previous: kernel-2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64
  • Current: kernel-2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64

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