Re: [Vserver] Remount Filesystem + Add Interface from the outside

From: Oliver Heinz <oheinz_at_fbihome.de>
Date: Tue 08 Aug 2006 - 15:42:09 BST
Message-Id: <200608081642.09867.oheinz@fbihome.de>

Am Dienstag, 8. August 2006 16:07 schrieb Herbert Poetzl:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 11:07:21AM +0200, Oliver Heinz wrote:
> > Am Montag, 7. August 2006 20:24 schrieb Herbert Poetzl:
> > > On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:24:54PM +0200, Oliver Heinz wrote:
> > > > Am Montag, 7. August 2006 11:42 schrieb Oliver Heinz:
> > > > > Hi there,
> > > > >
> > > > > I want to remount temporarily an noexec filesystem (/tmp) that is
> > > > > mounted in a vserver. I don't want to change the fstab and restart
> > > > > the vserver, and I don't want to give the vserver the caps to do it
> > > > > from within.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm sure there is a way to do that from the root-vserver, right?
> > > > >
> > > > > Within the vserver it would be a 'mount -o remount,exec /tmp'
> > > > >
> > > > > I found the secure-mount command but did not manage to get it to do
> > > > > what I wanted.
> > > >
> > > > Just found that I forgot to add the second part. Same with Network
> > > > Interfaces, how cann I add/delete an Interface from the outside to a
> > > > running vserver.
> > >
> > > first, with recent devel kernels and proper tools you
> > > can add ips to a running guest, given that the guest
> > > already had at least two ips assigned (single ip
> > > special casing is still there)
> >
> > Why do I need already two IPs assigned?
>
> because a single IP will get special casing if you do not
> tell the guest otherwise, which makes it impossible for
> already bound services to accomodate to a new ip

Is it possible to give the guest enough capabilities to add IPs from within
and will this work?

>
> > > now, 'how' to do that depends on the tools you use,
> > > but basically its a single command which adds or removes
> > > a single ip ...
> >
> > I tried a
> > vnamespace -e service ip addr add 172.29.50.163/24 brd 172.29.50.255
> > dev eth1 to add an interface to the guest called service
> >
> > But this is probably the wrong command :-(
>
> yep, vnamespace enters the 'file system namespace' for that
> guest, which is not really related to ips as you figured
>
> > I get an additional ip that is shown on the root-vserver
> >
> > 3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
> > link/ether 00:0e:0c:71:0f:8e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> > inet 172.29.50.100/24 brd 172.29.50.255 scope global eth1
> > inet 172.29.50.199/24 brd 172.29.50.255 scope global secondary eth1
> > ...
> > inet 172.29.50.163/24 brd 172.29.50.255 scope global secondary eth1
> >
> > But no new interface is shown inside the guest:
> >
> > root@gobi:/etc/snappy# vserver service enter
> > service:/# ip addr show
> > 3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
> > link/ether 00:0e:0c:71:0f:8e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> > inet 172.29.50.199/24 brd 172.29.50.255 scope global secondary eth1
> >
> > I'm running:
> > Kernel: 2.6.16.25-vs2.0.2-rc20-grsec2.1.9
> > VS-API: 0x00020001
> > util-vserver: 0.30.210; Mar 3 2006, 14:06:42
>
> with vserver-utils (according to Hollow):
>
> nx -add-addr <nid> <ip>/<prefix>
>
> with vcmd (hack tool):
>
> vcmd -i <nid> -C net_add .type=1 .count=1 .ip[0]=<ip> .mask=<mask>
>
> note: (older) vcmd takes the if/mask as dotted quad, but
> in reverse order (fixed in newer version)
>

Thanks, I'll try that.

Bye,
Oliver
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