Hi list, I've just updated my container config to use the new way of configuring the network on Arch Linux. This does not use the net-tools (ifconfig) package any more but instead uses ip.
The container rc.conf file contains the simple static network setup: # Static IP example interface=eth0 address=192.168.0.2 netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.0.1 The problem I have is that when /etc/rc.d/network tries to add the ip address to the network this fails with a "RTNETLINK answers: file exists" and bails out. It would appear that the IP address is already added when the script tries to do it. This causes it to fail and, therefore, not bother doing anything else. This means the routes (default gatweay) don't get set up so the network is left half-baked. Trying to shut down the network (/etc/rc.d/network stop) then fails because it can't delete the route that wasn't added (RTNETLINK answers: file not found). If I comment out the line from /etc/rc.d/network that adds the IP address (ip addr add...) everything then works fine when I start the container. However, If I manually stop the network, and then manually start the network it won't start because the IP address does not get added (due to that line being commented out). Very strange. I wondered if the LXC environment is adding the IP address when the container starts and if there is a way to stop this so it just lets the container do it ? I'm looking for some advice on how to get the network setup working correctly on Arch Linux. I may need new init scripts (rc.sysinit, rc.shutdown) also. Thanks in advance, John. -------------------------------------------------------------------- myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft® Windows® and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Lxc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users
