[lxc-users] OpenVPN server in a container... can connect but no webpages load

[Idafe Houghton]

What I may say, may seem stupid, but just to make sure...

May you tell us your NATting tables?

Thanks.

2016-12-27 21:13 GMT+01:00 John <da_audiophile at yahoo.com>:

> Goal: I currently have standalone box running openvpn that is correctly
> configured and works.  My goal is to move that to a container.
>
>
> Problem: I can connect to the openvpn server in the container but I cannot
> load webpages, they just timeout. I must not have something configured
> correctly.
>
> I have a very basic setup without a firewall currently (I will add ufw
> once I verify function without it):
>
>
> 1) Host OS: Arch Linux x86_64. I have a netctl loading br0 (see below).
> 2) LXC: I created a basic lxc with just base and openvpn.  I copied the
> contents of /etc/openvpn/* from the functional system to the lxc's
> /etc/openvpn.
> 3) I am forwarding port 443 (which is what I am running openvpn on, to the
> internal IP of the container).
>
> My netctl bridge profile on the host OS, /etc/netctl/bridge:
>
> =============================
> Description='lxc bridge'
> Interface=br0
> Connection=bridge
> BindsToInterfaces=('eth0')
> IP=dhcp
>
>
> Output of `ip a` on the host OS:
> =============================
> 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 4096 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group
> default
> link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
> inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
> valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
> inet6 ::1/128 scope host
> valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
>
>
> 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,PROMISC,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
> fq_codel master br0 state UP group default qlen 1000
> link/ether 00:1e:06:33:59:e7 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> inet6 fe80::21e:6ff:fe33:59e7/64 scope link
> valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
>
>
> 3: br0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP
> group default
> link/ether 00:1e:06:33:59:e7 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> inet 192.168.1.245/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global br0
> valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
> inet6 fe80::21e:6ff:fe33:59e7/64 scope link
> valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
>
>
> Output of `ip r` on the host OS:
> =============================
> default via 192.168.1.1 dev br0 src 192.168.1.245 metric 203
> 192.168.1.0/24 dev br0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.245 metric
> 203
>
>
> Output of `sysctl net.ipv4.conf | grep forward` on the host OS:
> =============================
> net.ipv4.conf.all.forwarding = 1
> net.ipv4.conf.all.mc_forwarding = 0
> net.ipv4.conf.br0.forwarding = 1
> net.ipv4.conf.br0.mc_forwarding = 0
> net.ipv4.conf.default.forwarding = 1
> net.ipv4.conf.default.mc_forwarding = 0
> net.ipv4.conf.eth0.forwarding = 1
> net.ipv4.conf.eth0.mc_forwarding = 0
> net.ipv4.conf.lo.forwarding = 1
> net.ipv4.conf.lo.mc_forwarding = 0
>
>
>
> My container config, /var/lib/lxc/base/config:
>
> =============================
> lxc.rootfs = /var/lib/lxc/base/rootfs
> lxc.rootfs.backend = dir
> lxc.utsname = base
> lxc.arch = x86_64
> lxc.include = /usr/share/lxc/config/archlinux.common.conf
>
> ## network
> lxc.network.type = veth
> lxc.network.flags = up
> lxc.network.link = br0
> lxc.network.name = eth0
> lxc.network.ipv4 = 192.168.1.246/24
> lxc.network.ipv4.gateway = 192.168.1.1
>
> ## systemd within the lxc
> lxc.autodev = 1
> lxc.hook.autodev = /var/lib/lxc/base/autodev
> lxc.pts = 1024
> lxc.kmsg = 0
>
> ## for openvpn
> lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:200 rwm
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