Subject: Re: [vserver] Adding multicast to guest on startup?
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 15:37:19 +0200

On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 07:19:41AM +0200, Benedikt Böhm wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Ed W <lists@wildgooses.com> wrote:
> >  On 30/08/2010 21:43, Benedikt Böhm wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Ed W<lists@wildgooses.com>  wrote:
> >>>
> >>>  Hi, I'm trying to get avahi working within a guest.  So far it seems
> >>> like
> >>> because it wants to do multicast, I might need to run something like the
> >>> following in the host:
> >>>
> >>>    naddress --nid xxx --add --mask 224.0.0.0/4
> >>
> >> i failed with this approach and wrote the patch available at
> >> http://paste.linux-vserver.org/16406
> >>
> >> Bertl told me he might add this patch to the official vserver patch,
> >> no idea what's the ETA though ...
> >
> > I will give it a try shortly - server is slightly hard to reboot...
> >
> > However, the patch seems simple enough?  So I just add that capability to
> > bcapabilities file and we are done?

> it is a network capability, but util-vsever does not know the name of
> it (yet), so you have to put the bare number in the config:

> echo $((0x00010000)) > /etc/vservers/foo/ncapabilities

^16 should work too and is probably easier to remember

best,
Herbert

> HTH,
> Bene