On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 5:22 AM, Robert Koretsky <bob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have successfully installed and created/started LXC containers on Ubuntu > 15.10, but cannot get them to be visible on my home network. I do an > ifconfig on both the host and in a container, and see the IPv4 address of > lxcbr0 as 10.0.3.1, but after reading many references cannot figure out how > to get my router to assign the container an address, like 192.168.0.20 say. > What documentations have you read? > I think one of the purposes of containerized OS's is putting web-facing > stuff in them securely. > One of them, yes. Not the only one. > So I don't follow the reasoning behind putting the container in it's own > sub-net with the host, > Because that's the easiest setup to start with. Similar to vbox's NAT networking. > and then not having some readily available docs to explain how to get the > container to face the network. > Did you read "Networking" section on https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/lxc.html ? > Someone at Ubuntu forums suggested that since many networks have different > configurations, explaining how to hook up LXC to all of them would be > difficult. > Not to bash LXC, I think it's a great piece of software, but in > VirtualBox, or PCBSD Jails, Solaris Zones, bridging the VM guest NIC is > almost a trivial operation. Not so in LXC, IMHO. > Again, what documentations have you actually read? > And I have a vanilla installation of Ubuntu 15.10 running on dedicated > hardware, and the default LXC packages from the Ubuntu repository. > I would appreciate anyone coming up with some clearly articulated > procedure for bridging lxcbr0, so I can either have it automatically > assigned an IP address by my router, or even done manually somehow. > The basics should be explained in the link I sent, including how to "bridge the host's network interfaces". The networking setup (e.g. bridge-with-nat, or bridge-host-interface) is generic, in that it applies to lxc, xvm, xen, whatever. -- Fajar
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