Hi,
I'm using LXC to run Perl scripts that generate network traffic, using the
Net::RawIP package.
The scripts work perfectly well on a "real" host, but fail inside an LXC
container.
After a few hours of testing/debuging, the origin of the problem is that
some basic ioctl calls on socket fails.
Net::RawIP relies on SIOCGIFADDR et SIOCGIFHWADDR to get the IP and MAC
addresses of the network interface.
My container has 2 interfaces : 1 macvlan (normally used to generate
traffic) and 1 bridged (to dialogue with the host and the other
containers).
In the container, these ioctl calls fail with an "Invalid argument" on
every interface, including the loopback.
I've extracted the failing code from Net::RawIP to have a simple test
program (code at the end of the message).
It just creates a socket and do the 2 ioctl calls on it.
My LXC configuration is based on the article of Stéphane Graber
(http://www.stgraber.org/category/lxc):
- host : Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop (2.6.31 kernel)
- containers : Ubuntu 8.04
I really don't know what's wrong, because ifconfig relies on the same
basic call to get interface information...
If anyone has any idea, I would greatly appreciate it :-)
Stéphane.
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <netinet/if_ether.h>
#include <net/if.h>
#include <errno.h>
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
unsigned int ip;
unsigned char mac[256];
int fd;
if(argc!=2) {
printf("Usage : test <device>\n");
return -1;
}
fd = tap(argv[1],&ip,mac);
if(fd>0) {
printf("Got IP (%i) and MAC (%s)\n",ip,mac);
}
}
/* Code extracted from Net::RawIP */
int tap(char *dev,unsigned int *my_eth_ip,unsigned char *my_eth_mac)
{
int fd,v,s;
struct ifreq ifr;
memset(&ifr,0,sizeof(struct ifreq));
(void)strcpy(ifr.ifr_name, dev);
printf("Getting IP / MAC info for device (%s)\n",dev);
if ((fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_PACKET, htons(ETH_P_ALL))) < 0) {
printf("Socket creation failed with code (%d) : %s\n",errno,
strerror(errno));
return -1;
}
if (ioctl(fd, SIOCGIFADDR, &ifr) < 0) {
close(fd);
printf("SIOCGIFADDR failed with code (%d) : %s\n",errno,
strerror(errno));
return -1;
}
*my_eth_ip = ntohl(((struct
sockaddr_in*)&ifr.ifr_addr)->sin_addr.s_addr);
if (ioctl(fd, SIOCGIFHWADDR, &ifr) < 0) {
close(fd);
printf("SIOCGIFHWADDR failed with code (%d) : %s\n",errno,
strerror(errno));
return -1;
}
memcpy(my_eth_mac, ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data,ETH_ALEN);
return fd;
}
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