Re: [libvirt-users] Networking issues with lxc containers in AWS EC2
On 04/02/2016 05:20 PM, Laine Stump wrote:
You say they can talk among containers on the same host, and with
their
own host (I guess you mean the virtual machine that is hosting the
containers), but not to containers on another host. Can the containers
communicate outside of the host at all? If not, perhaps the problem is
iptables rules for the bridge device the containers are using - try
running this command:
sysctl net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables
If that returns:
net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables = 1
then run this command and see if the containers can now communicate with
the outside:
sysctl -w net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables=0
This key doesn't exist in the CentOS 7 image I'm running. I do have a
bridge interface defined of course, although we do not run iptables. We
don't need this service when running our software on premise. Actually,
in CentOS 7 the iptables service doesn't exist; there's a new service
called firewalld that serves the same purpose. We don't run this either
at present.
Well, if they've allowed your virtual machine to acquire multiple
IP
addresses, then it would make sense that they would allow them to
actually use those IP addresses. I'm actually more inclined to think
that the packets simply aren't getting out of the virtual machine (or
the responses aren't getting back in).
The difference is that the virtual machine itself isn't assigned the IPs
but rather containers under the AWS instance and something with how
Amazon manages their stack prevents the packets from one container to
the other. The very fact that the exact same software runs fine in VMs
under say VMware or KVM but not VMs under AWS clearly points to AWS as
the ultimate source of the problem.