[lxc-users] lxc - DSL pppoe into container - Possible?

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Jonathan Grégoire (jonathan763 at gmail.com):
> Hi all,
> 
> My home router/firewall (ubuntu + iptables) is currently running in KVM and
> I would like to run it into a container to reduce the ressource
> footprint.... but I'm having a problem to make my DSL PPPoE working...
> 
> The containrt is unable to use the kernel modules loaded into the host.
> 
> ==============================================
> 
> 
> My firewall container when trying to bring up the PPPoE:
> 
> root at myfirewall:~# pon dsl-provider
> Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.
> Couldn't open the /dev/ppp device: Operation not permitted

Did you add the /dev/ppp device to the container's devices whitelist?

> modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:556 kmod_search_moddep() could not
> open moddep file '/lib/modules/3.13.0-53-generic/modules.dep.bin'
> Linux kernel does not support PPPoE -- are you running 2.4.x?
> 
> 
> root at myfirewall:~# lsmod | grep ppp
> pppoe                  17873  0
> pppox                  13342  1 pppoe
> 
> ==============================================
> 
> Kernel modules are loaded into the host (my host is running Ubuntu 14.04.2
> LTS)
> 
> jonathan at vmhost01:~$ sudo lsmod | grep ppp
> pppoe                  17873  0
> pppox                  13342  1 pppoe
> 
> ==============================================
> 
> I thought that a container would be able to use the kernel modules that are
> loaded into the host. I probably miss something....
> 
> 
> Thanks!

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