[Lxc-users] Regarding connecting containers to vlan

Kalyana sundaram kalyanceg at gmail.com
Wed Oct 31 14:24:44 UTC 2012


My bad, I bridged eth0.211 and eth0.103 with br0. Could I know the problems
it would cause?

I love the way of creating a vlan interface and putting an ip over it.
should try that
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha <list at fajar.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Kalyana sundaram <kalyanceg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Thanks Fajar. Atlast I got the vlan thingy working
> > I added 2 vlans to eth0 (eth0.211 and eth0.103) and connected them to
> bridge
>
> You assigned eth0 (the trunk) to the bridge, right?
>
> Just checking. Cause if you DON'T assign the trunk, but rather BOTH
> vlan interface (eth0.211 AND eth0.103) to the SAME bridge, bad things
> WILL happen :)
>
> > br0 and used br0 as a link to container(veth)
> > To reach the host I used another interface eth1
>
> That's the easy way.
>
> > (probably assigning ip to
> > bridge br0 would have solved that problem)
>
> If eth0 is the trunk, and you assign it on br0, you should be able to
> create a vlan interface (e.g. br0.100) and put ip on that vlan
> interface instead. Note that if you use this approach, you should NOT
> create a vlan interface on top of the bridge using the vlan that you
> pass thru to the container. That is, you must NOT create br0.211 and
> br0.103.
>
> There are ways around this though. For example, by creating another
> veth pair, assigining one to the bridge, and create vlan on the pair
> interface. It's somewhat a hassle, but should work.
>
> Confused? Welcome to linux bridge :D
>
> Openvswitch should be able to work around this cleanly, if you can
> master the interface (don't rely on linux bridge compatibility code).
>
> --
> Fajar
>



-- 
Kalyanasundaram
http://blogs.eskratch.com/
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