On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 07:10:47AM +0200, Tom Coetser wrote: > Hi all, > > I've now spent quite some time trying to find this answer in the > VServer wikkis and on google, but can not seem to find it. > > Is it possible to have a vserver guest get it's IP address from a DHCP > server on the network? If so, how?
yes, it is possible, but it does not give a real advantage, because: - the guest has the same MAC as the host - it requires 'raw' network access to do DHCP (which is no ip protocol) so basically you would end up giving some caps to the guest and specifying a 'special' client identifier (i.e. a name or IP :) just to get some IP assigned and have the dhcp client renew it every 5 minutes or so ... > I find many references to running a DHCP *server* inside a vserver > guest, but maybe I'm missing something very obvious or I'm not > searching properly because I can not find anything on using a DHCP > client in a vserver guest. > > This is on a Debian host (AMD64), kernel 2.6.12 with vs2.01 > and util-vserver 0.30.209-2. Guests are Debian ia32 and amd64 > installations. HTC, Herbert > Thanks, > Tom > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
