[Lxc-users] Physical interface not getting released after container shutdown

[Jäkel, Guido]

Dear Benoit,

Does the container put down the interfaces on shutdown? Please check (e.g. with netstat) on host, if there are pending connections after shutdown of the containers. 

regards

Guido

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Benoit Lourdelet [mailto:blourdel at juniper.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:39 AM
>To: lxc-users
>Subject: [Lxc-users] Physical interface not getting released after container shutdown
>
>Hello,
>
>
>I am running LXC 0.8.0 on Ubuntu running Kernel 3.7.1.
>
>
>I have assigned physical interfaces to a container:
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>
>lxc.network.type = phys lxc.network.flags = up lxc.network.link = eth4.2000 lxc.network.name = eth2 lxc.network.hwaddr =
>00:50:56:a8:03:03 lxc.network.type = phys lxc.network.flags = up lxc.network.link = eth5.2000 lxc.network.name = eth1 lxc.network.hwaddr
>= 00:50:57:b8:00:01
>
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>When I shutdown the container, the interfaces are not released. So I can not re-launch the container.
>
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>The only way to get the interfaces back is to reboot the host.
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>
>regards
>
>
>Benoit