[Lxc-users] Dual NIC support

Nirmal Guhan vavatutu at gmail.com
Wed Jul 21 15:31:34 UTC 2010


Ditto. Thanks a lot.

--Nirmal

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Matt Rechenburg <matt at openqrm.com> wrote:
> Great ! thx for info, very useful
>
> Matt
>
> On 07/21/2010 11:15 AM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>> On 07/21/2010 10:05 AM, Matt Rechenburg wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 07/21/2010 09:57 AM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>>> On 07/21/2010 03:03 AM, Nirmal Guhan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Assuming I have a two NIC system, is it possible to assign a NIC
>>>>> exclusively per container  ? Traffic to NIC 1 get routed to container
>>>>> 1 and NIC 2 to container 2 ? Please let me know.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Yes, it is possible but with a 2.6.35 kernel.
>>>>
>>>> The configuration is:
>>>>
>>>>        lxc.network.type=phys
>>>>        lxc.network.link=eth1
>>>>        lxc.network.name=eth1
>>>>
>>>
>>> Cool!
>>>
>>> Maybe a stupid question but is it also possible to have 2 (or more) nics
>>> within a container connected to different bridges ?
>>>   From the naming convention of the lxc.* parameters I for now thought
>>> each container supports just one nic.
>>
>> Yes, you can repeat the configuration lines:
>>
>> lxc.network.type=veth
>> lxc.network.link=br0
>> lxc.network.flags=up
>> lxc.network.ipv4=1.2.3.4/24
>>
>> lxc.network.type=veth
>> lxc.network.link=br1
>> lxc.network.flags=up
>> lxc.network.ipv4=4.3.2.1/24
>>
>> etc ...
>>
>> You can create more network interfaces than you have on your host and
>> you can mix the configurations like in the lxc-complex.conf
>> configuration example.
>>
>> If the lxc.network.name is not specified, the interfaces will be
>> created in the reverse order they were specified, it's a bug and will
>> be fixed very soon.
>>
>> Thanks
>>   -- Daniel
>>
>>
>>> Many thanks + have a great day,
>>>
>>> Matt
>>> ... likes lxc
>>>
>>>> the latter line will be optional in a few commits.
>>>>
>>>>      -- Daniel
>>>>
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