On 07/02/2010 23:01, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 16:40 -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: >> I mentioned this in an earlier posting that I was using the veth method >> with bridges because I could NOT get macvlan to work. Problem is that >> the containers will come up and will talk on the network but the host >> can not talk to any of the guest containers. Ping doesn't work and >> connections don't work. Not IPv4 or IPv6. I can connect to containers >> from other systems (both IPv4 and IPv6) but not from the system that's >> hosting them. Someone suggested that the problem was an old bug that >> they thought was fixed in more recent kernels. But wasn't more >> specific. >>
There is a reference to a required change in 2.6.33 kernel in a previous post on lxc-devel: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20091227224036.688337477%40mai-009101017029.toulouse-stg.fr.ibm.com&forum_name=lxc-devel extract: "The future kernel 2.6.33 will incorporate the macvlan bridge mode where all the macvlan will be able to communicate if they are using the same physical interface ..." --- Michel >> I just recently moved several of my test containers from my Fedora 11 >> engine to a newer 64 bit Fedora 12 system. In the process, I thought, >> what the heck, lets give macvlan another shot, so I reconfigured a >> couple of the containers from veth to macvlan. Same problem. Latest >> kernel from Fedora and same problem. > > Another point on the curve. Two containers, both on macvlan, can not > ping each other but the other containers, on the veth bridge, on the > same host, can ping each other and the macvlan containers. IPtables > firewall rules are completely flushed so it's not firewalling either. > >> The Fedora 11 kernel: kernel-2.6.30.10-105.2.4.fc11.i586 >> The Fedora 12 kernel: kernel-2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.x86_64 >> >> Anyone with thoughts or suggestions on what to try next? > > Mike > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Lxc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users
