VPN via the TUN/TAP device on the OpenVZ container

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VPN via the TUN/TAP device on the OpenVZ container

Postby lik » Mon May 18, 2009 5:20 am

VPN via the TUN/TAP device

Kernel TUN/TAP support

OpenVZ supports VPN inside a container via kernel TUN/TAP module and device. To allow container #101 to use the TUN/TAP device the following should be done:

Make sure the tun module has been already loaded on the hardware node:
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lsmod | grep tun

If it is not there, use the following command to load tun module:
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modprobe tun

You can also add it into /etc/modules.conf to make sure it will be loaded on every reboot automatically.

Granting container an access to TUN/TAP

Allow your container to use the tun/tap device:
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vzctl set 101 --devices c:10:200:rw --save
vzctl set 101 --capability net_admin:on --save


Where '101' is a needed veid of the VM container.
And create the character device file inside the container:
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vzctl exec 101 mkdir -p /dev/net
vzctl exec 101 mknod /dev/net/tun c 10 200
vzctl exec 101 chmod 600 /dev/net/tun


Configuring VPN inside container

After the configuration steps above are done it is possible to use VPN software working with TUN/TAP inside container just like on a usual standalone linux box.

The following software can be used for VPN with TUN/TAP:

* Virtual TUNnel (http://vtun.sourceforge.net)
* OpenVPN (http://openvpn.sourceforge.net)

Taken from the official OpenVZ wiki http://wiki.openvz.org
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