Re: [vserver] Bind physical interfaces in vserver

From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert_at_13thfloor.at>
Date: Sat 24 Apr 2010 - 10:54:24 BST
Message-ID: <20100424095424.GF30628@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:24:13PM -0500, Greg Kellogg wrote:
> Hi all,

> I am really having a tough time finding accurate information.

> I am trying to create a "bare metal" installation and would like a
> vserver to to "own" the physical interface and use dhcp. In other
> words, I do not want the host to have to pump for the address, just
> the vserver itself.

> I have tried a DHCP.conf file, adding eth0 in the interfaces list
> without an address and any other option I could find.

> Is this possible?

yes, it is possible, but not the suggested way to do things ...

> If so, how?

you can either give the guest the necessary permissions to
the guest (in form of capabilities), which will allow it
to mess with networking in general, not just that interface

> I am running Gentoo 2.6.22 kernel with the latest vserver build.

or you can use network namespaces (present in recent kernels)
and set that up with a virtual ethernet interface and a bridge
on the host (more overhead)

but in general requesting a second dhcp id on the host and
assigning that to the guest is much simpler and a lot cleaner :)

best,
Herbert

> TIA!
> Greg
Received on Sat Apr 24 10:54:37 2010

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