On 04/06/13, Rory Campbell-Lange (r...@campbell-lange.net) wrote:
> On 03/06/13, Serge Hallyn (serge.hal...@ubuntu.com) wrote:
> > Quoting Rory Campbell-Lange (r...@campbell-lange.net):
> > > On 04/06/13, Papp Tamas (tom...@martos.bme.hu) wrote:

> > > The host is on aa.bb.cc.103 (a public net address)
> > > and the container is on aa.bb.cc.87.
> > > 
> > > I can get from 87 to 103, but I can't ping the gateway from the
> > > container.

> > 1. what does 'route -n' in the container (and on the host) show?
> > 
> > 2. when you ping the ip address of your router, what does traceroute
> > (wireshark, whatever) on the host show?

> Going through the steps above showed me I had a firewall problem. Dropping the
> firewall allowed the container to hit the internet. Apologies for this 
> beginner
> problem.
> 
> I'd be grateful to know if anyone has some firewall (iptables) advice for
> allowing traffic to the container? I expect to run another firewall on the
> container itself.

It looks like I don't have to drop the firewall on the host if I do the
following:

    for f in /proc/sys/net/bridge/bridge-nf-*; do echo 0 > $f; done

Reference:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/bridge#No_traffic_gets_trough_.28except_ARP_and_STP.29

Is this recommended?

Rory

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Rory Campbell-Lange
r...@campbell-lange.net

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