Hi,
i have tried to find an rfc about this but have failed, instead, the
only (serious/credible) documentation i could find was
http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenNetworking#head-d5446face7e308f577e5aee1c72cf9d156903722
,
so i updated the script accordingly, here is the updated patch.
again,
Signed-off-by: John Soros <joh...@r0x0r.me>
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the router thinks its a printer.
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:03:55 +0100
Jäkel, Guido <g.jae...@dnb.de> wrote:
> Dear John,
>
> > - generate random mac address for the guest so it gets always the
> > same lease from a dhcp server
>
> You suggest doing this by
>
> macaddr=$(echo -n 00; hexdump -n 5 -v -e '/1
> ":%02X"' /dev/urandom)
>
>
>
> I think this is a "little bit to random". The german Wikipedia tells
> at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC-Adresse about a reserved MAC
> range for private use (sorry, it's not in corresponding the English
> article):
>
> ["Neben der OUI existiert auch ein kleiner Adressbereich (IAB
> - Individual Address Block), der für Privatpersonen und kleine Firmen
> und Organisationen vorgesehen ist, die nicht so viele Adressen
> benötigen. Die Adresse beginnt mit 00-50-C2 und wird von drei
> weiteren Hex-Ziffern gefolgt (12 Bits), die für jede Organisation
> vergeben werden. Damit verbleibt der Adressbereich innerhalb der Bits
> 11 bis 0 nutzbar wodurch 212 = 4096 individuelle Adressen möglich
> sind."]
>
>
>
> Maybe we should take respect to this and we should use
>
> macaddr=$(echo -n "00:50:C2"; hexdump -n 3 -v -e '/1
> ":%02X"' /dev/urandom)
>
> for this. Another approach is to derive it from the designated name
> of the container (i.e. $hostname in terms of the script). Because
> there might be typical clustering naming schemes based on a name and
> some digits, I suggest to select the first and the last two
> characters of the hostname (filled by random for the unlikely case of
> a hostname shorter than 3 chars)
>
> echo -n "00:50:C2"; echo "${hostname:0:1}${hostname: -2}
> $(head -c 3 /dev/urandom) " | hexdump -n 3 -v -e '/1 ":%02X"'
>
> -> 00:50:C2:<first>:<nextlast>:<last> filled by random
>
>
>
> @Daniel: Because this will have a common use for all, it might be
> included into the lxc-conf parser
>
> ["lxc.network.hwaddr: the interface mac address is
> dynamically allocated by default to the virtual interface ...]"
>
>
> We maybe should have a special keyword for a "derived" semi-static
> MAC that would not change at every startup of the container but may
> be calculated by the formula given above.
>
>
> Guido
>
>
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--- /usr/lib/lxc/templates/lxc-debian 2010-08-04 19:27:58.000000000 +0200
+++ lxc-debian 2011-03-01 18:15:12.895043450 +0100
@@ -66,10 +66,10 @@
# reconfigure some services
if [ -z "$LANG" ]; then
chroot $rootfs locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
- chroot $rootfs update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+ chroot $rootfs update-locale LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
else
chroot $rootfs locale-gen $LANG
- chroot $rootfs update-locale LANG=$LANG
+ chroot $rootfs update-locale LANG=$LANG LC_ALL=$LANG
fi
# remove pointless services in a container
@@ -77,6 +77,12 @@
chroot $rootfs /usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f hwclock.sh remove
chroot $rootfs /usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f hwclockfirst.sh remove
+ # do some adjustment for the final image
+ mknod -m 666 $rootfs/dev/tty1 c 4 1
+ mknod -m 666 $rootfs/dev/tty2 c 4 2
+ mknod -m 666 $rootfs/dev/tty3 c 4 3
+ mknod -m 666 $rootfs/dev/tty4 c 4 4
+
echo "root:root" | chroot $rootfs chpasswd
echo "Root password is 'root', please change !"
@@ -90,7 +96,7 @@
locales,\
libui-dialog-perl,\
dialog,\
-dhcp-client,\
+isc-dhcp-client,\
netbase,\
net-tools,\
iproute,\
@@ -110,7 +116,7 @@
echo "Downloading debian minimal ..."
debootstrap --verbose --variant=minbase --arch=$arch \
--include $packages \
- lenny $cache/partial-$arch http://ftp.debian.org/debian
+ squeeze $cache/partial-$arch http://ftp.debian.org/debian
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Failed to download the rootfs, aborting."
return 1
@@ -130,13 +136,13 @@
# make a local copy of the minidebian
echo -n "Copying rootfs to $rootfs..."
- cp -a $cache/rootfs-$arch $rootfs || return 1
+ cp -a $cache/rootfs-$arch/* $rootfs || return 1
return 0
}
install_debian()
{
- cache="/var/cache/lxc/debian"
+ cache="/var/cache/lxc/debian-squeeze"
rootfs=$1
mkdir -p /var/lock/subsys/
(
@@ -182,8 +188,19 @@
path=$1
rootfs=$2
name=$3
+ rndbit=""
+ while [[ $rndbit != "2" && $rndbit != "6" && $rndbit != "A" && $rndbit != "E" ]]; do
+ rndbit="$(hexdump -n 1 -v -e '/1 "%02X"' /dev/urandom |sed 's,^.,,g' |tr -d '\n')"
+ done
+ macaddr=$(echo -n "0${rndbit}"; hexdump -n 5 -v -e '/1 ":%02X"' /dev/urandom)
cat <<EOF >> $path/config
+lxc.network.type = veth
+lxc.network.flags = up
+lxc.network.link = br0
+lxc.network.ipv4 = 0.0.0.0
+lxc.network.hwaddr = $macaddr
+
lxc.tty = 4
lxc.pts = 1024
lxc.rootfs = $rootfs
@@ -220,7 +237,7 @@
clean()
{
- cache="/var/cache/lxc/debian"
+ cache="/var/cache/lxc/debian-squeeze"
if [ ! -e $cache ]; then
exit 0
@@ -244,7 +261,7 @@
usage()
{
cat <<EOF
-$1 -h|--help -p|--path=<path> --clean
+$1 -h|--help -p|--path=<path> -n|--name=<hostname> --clean
EOF
return 0
}
@@ -268,6 +285,12 @@
esac
done
+if [ -z $name ]; then
+ echo "No name given"
+ usage $0
+ exit 1
+fi
+
if [ ! -z "$clean" -a -z "$path" ]; then
clean || exit 1
exit 0
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