Hi Christof, On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 07:59:16PM +0100, Christof Schulze wrote: > Hello, > > This is my first post to this list. I would like to run batman-adv > inside an lxc-container just as described in [1]. I do not want to do it > to simulate a network having multiple nodes but to separate duties of > different "virtual machines" - linux containers in my case and to be > able to easily migrate the configuration to a differen machine lateron.
lxc-container support has not been properly implemented in batman-adv yet. So things are not always working "naturely" and can even make your system crash (e.g. rebooting an lxc-container makes your system crash [0]). > > I started by loading batman-adv on the host and bridging it into the > container. After adding the interfaces inside the container where > meshing should happen I cannot add a gateway because batctl complains > that /sys/class/net/bat0/mesh does not exist. Indeed, in the container > it does not exist. > > How can batman-adv be used from an lxc-container? > What I usually did was configuring batman-adv properly on the host via batctl. And only in the end adding it to the lxc-container. That seemed to work for me (except the reboot crash noted above). Cheers, Linus [0]: http://www.open-mesh.org/issues/179
