[lxc-users] creating bridges inside a (macvlan) container

[Chris Burroughs]

On 03/24/2015 06:00 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
>> create veth bridges inside a container on top of macvlan bridges?
>
> It works just fine on Ubuntu with an old lxc-1.0.7.

Thanks for checking!  This is with lxc-1.0.7 on centos6

> Did you perhaps NOT have the bridge module loaded yet on the host? Try
> adding and removing a bridge on the host first to verify that
> everything works (including loading the necessary modules), and then
> retry your test on the container side.

I tried doing the bridge cycle on the physical host first and get the 
same result.

> Note that this is assuming you'd be using the bridge to create an
> additional network, and NOT bridging the container's eth0 (which is a
> macvlan device).

I'm not sure I understand the details of linux networking enough to 
appreciate the difference.