[Lxc-users] adding a default gateway inside a container as a non root user

[Arun M]

Thanks for the suggestion, will try this out. Does it work even if a non-root user starts the container (via lxc-execute)? 
 
Thanks,
Arun

----- Original Message -----
> From: Schorschi <schorschi at dc.rr.com>
> To: 'Arun M' <arun_mah at yahoo.com>; lxc-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Cc: 
> Sent: Friday, 2 March 2012 7:16 AM
> Subject: RE: [Lxc-users] adding a default gateway inside a container as a non root user
> 
> My tactical work around was to inject the route add into /etc/rc.d/rc.local
> in the rootfs template for my LXC containers, so when I create each
> container rc.local is staged, did the same with /etc/resolv.conf as well.
> 
> Schorschi
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arun M [mailto:arun_mah at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 11:32
> To: lxc-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Lxc-users] adding a default gateway inside a container as a non
> root user
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to add a default gateway inside a lxc container so that the
> application can talk to outside network. 
> 
> I used lxc-setcap to set capabilities and started the container as a
> non-root user.
> 
> lxc-execute -n alpha -f a.conf -- /bin/start.sh
> 
> in start.sh :-
> #!/bin/sh
> route add default gw 169.254.100.1
> exec sh
> 
> I get the following error :-
> route: SIOCADDRT: Operation not permitted
> 
> Tried adding cap_net_admin to lxc-init, making 'route' a suid program 
> etc
> but did not help.
> 
> The networking config is as follows:-
> lxc.network.type = veth
> 
> lxc.network.flags = up
> lxc.network.link = br0
> lxc.network.name = eth1
> lxc.network.ipv4 = 169.254.100.6/24
> 
> Any pointers ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Arun
> 
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