Xen machine can see others on subnet but not gateway

EDIT: solved

it appears that switching static MAC definitions combined with mapping vif/0 and vif/0 statically to eth0 and eth1 (in domU, as per http://tomclegg.net/xen-eth0-renamed) done it.

I'm troubleshooting this strange issue (well, for me at least) on my xen domU.

Here's the basic layout:

-------- -------------
|      | | XEN  d0   |
|  A   | | --------- |
|      | | | xen dU| |
-------- -------------

Host A is unrelated machine with IP 213.226.13x.yyy/24

XEN d0 is the hypervisor with IP 213.226.13x.zzz/24

XEN dU is the guest OS (debian etch) I'm trying to configure to see the gateway, it has IP 213.226.13x.jjj/24

The gateway is 213.226.13x.1.

All machines are on the same subnet. The problem is that gues OS can't ping the gateway, but can ping dom0 and host A no problem.

dom0 and host A can ping each other, the gateway and guest.

Things I've tried on host A:

ARP ping

$ arping -c 1 -i eth0 213.226.13x.1

ARPING 213.226.13x.1
60 bytes from 00:02:b3:e8:30:7e (213.226.13x.1): index=0 time=224.113 usec
...

(strangely, arping -c 1 -i eth0 00:02:b3:e8:30:7e does not work).

Broadcast ping

$ ping -b 213.226.13x.255

WARNING: pinging broadcast address
PING 213.226.13x.255 (213.226.13x.255) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 213.226.13x.18: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.463 ms
64 bytes from 213.226.13x.28: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.478 ms (DUP!)
...

Same stuff on xen guest doesn't return any results (both, arping and ping -b).

$ iptables -L output on both, host A and xen guest is the same (zero rules):

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Things I've ruled out as of this time:

damaged physical link - XEN dom0 wouldn't work also, which is not the case.

firewall on gateway - my ARP pings would still get through?

firewall on xen guest - iptables -L has no rules

routing issue - not sure about this one, but I wouldn't be able to ping host A and dom0 with messed up routing table, would I?

Any help is very much appreciated

EDIT1: additional info

I'm not using xen's bridging scripts, network-dummy instead with manually created br-eth1 for eth1 which is the interface for the local network. eth0 is the bridge created by XEN installation for eth0 interface (renamed to peth0 AFAIK).

Here's how /etc/network/interfaces look like on dom0:

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
  address 213.226.13x.zzz
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  gateway 213.226.13x.1

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet manual

auto br-eth1
iface br-eth1 inet static
  address 192.168.1.11
  netmask 255.255.255.0

And "brctl show" (with domU being off)..

bridge name bridge id       STP enabled interfaces
br-eth1     8000.000423d0d059   no      eth1
eth0        8000.000423d0d058   no      peth0

EDIT2: additional info

XEN config for domU:

#
#  Bootloader + kernel + memory size
#
bootloader  = '/usr/lib/xen-3.2-1/bin/pygrub'
kernel      = '/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-xen-686'
ramdisk     = '/boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-5-xen-686'
memory      = '3072'
vcpus       = '4'

#
#  Disk device(s).
#
root        = '/dev/sda1 ro'
disk        = [
                  'phy:/dev/vg_main/domain-disk,sda1,w',
                  'phy:/dev/vg_main/domain-swap,sda2,w',
              ]


#
#  Hostname
#
name        = '...'

#
#  Networking
#
vif = [
        'ip=213.226.13x.jjj,mac=00:16:3E:83:0B:BC,bridge=eth0',
        'ip=192.168.1.12,mac=00:16:3E:83:0B:AC,bridge=br-eth1',
]

#
#  Behaviour
#
on_poweroff = 'destroy'
on_reboot   = 'restart'
on_crash    = 'restart'