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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve got an environment set up now where the host OS has a static IP directly connected to the LAN. I’m bridging the containers to have their own static LAN IP as well.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In my containers I’ve set:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>lxc.network.type=veth<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>lxc.network.link=br0<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>lxc.network.name=eth0<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>lxc.network.ipv4 = 10.1.3.21/16<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>lxc.network.flags=up<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>When I start my container eth0 is *<b>not</b>* configured. If I manually add `eth0=eth0` in /run/network/ifstate and `service restart networking`, it gets configured properly.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>davidparks21@Myrrix:~$ dmesg | grep eth0<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>[ 3.185536] igb 0000:01:00.0: >eth0: (PCIe:2.5Gb/s:Width x4) 00:a0:d1:ec:a5:60<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>[ 3.185617] igb 0000:01:00.0: >eth0: PBA No: 82576B-001<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>[ 7.763432] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>[19343.087473] device veth0BuAGV entered promiscuous mode<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>[19343.089738] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): veth0BuAGV: link is not ready<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>[19343.378396] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): veth0BuAGV: link becomes ready<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>[19343.378439] br0: port 4(veth0BuAGV) entered forwarding state<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>[19343.378444] br0: port 4(veth0BuAGV) entered forwarding state<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>[19361.054176] br0: port 4(veth0BuAGV) entered disabled state<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>[19361.062203] device veth0BuAGV left promiscuous mode<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>[19361.062207] br0: port 4(veth0BuAGV) entered disabled state<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>davidparks21@Myrrix:~$ dmesg | grep em1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>[ 10.869348] device em1 entered promiscuous mode<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>[ 10.985440] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): em1: link is not ready<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>[ 13.985304] igb: em1 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>[ 13.987591] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): em1: link becomes ready<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>[ 13.987626] br0: port 1(em1) entered forwarding state<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>[ 13.987632] br0: port 1(em1) entered forwarding state</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>After looking at dmesg output I noticed that there are (unexpected) references to em1, which is the host’s physical NIC.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The bridging all works, networking is fine, it’s just when I start the container, rebooting reproduces the problem, then manually updating ifstate and rebooting resolves it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m not sure how to configure it so it configure eth0 on reboot as I would expect.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for any advice!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>David<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>