Re: hostapd in lxc

Ah, forgot to mention: I am using isc-dhcp and bind, not dnsmasq.

On Fri, Dec 30, 2016, 11:38 Ehud Kaldor <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sorry for the time lag.
>
> I'm using Docker, so I'm not sure all will apply to lxc, but here goes:
> I want to set up my home network (DHCP, DNS, gateway, file server etc.)
> using containers. If for nothing else, than for the experience with
> containers.
>
> It works if the container is connected to the host's net directly
> (--net=host), but I want the container to be its own network entity, with a
> MAC and IP. That way, moving it between hosts is seamless.
>
> It seems a macvlan network is the best option, but I have not tried it
> yet. In fact, I tried it before libnetwork was released, so routing traffic
> to the container on the host's network we hard. But it needed to, as DHCP
> protocol is in effect before IP is up, so lower level protocols need to
> routed in to the container, which was not simple.
>
> These days, with Swarm and Docker network, it is probably simpler. Yet, I
> am hunting for insights before I start breaking things apart again...
>
> Ehud
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2016, 00:20 Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> On 12/28/2016 12:32 AM, Ehud Kaldor wrote:
> > Hi Ivan,
> > Do you also run DHCP in a container? If so, can you share how you did it?
>
> No, I don't. dnsmasqd runs on my router.
> I never configured a dhcp server (other than using the openwrt gui).
> Still I can not envision what extra problems you had to face.
> What went wrong? Which dhcp server?
>
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