[Lxc-users] What's the setup for macvlan on the host to talk to containers?

[Gordon Henderson]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2010, Whit Blauvelt wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When it's said that for the host to speak to a guest on macvlan, that this
> depends on setting up macvlan for the host, too, where can I find
> instructions on how to do that?

You need to compile the options into the kernel and make sure that you 
have the bridge-utils package.

Under Networking Options:
   801.1d Ethernet bridging
   802.1q VLAN

And under Device Drivers -> Network device support:
   MAC-VLAN (experimental)

At least that works for me!

Gordon