Hello everybody,

I have some testcases which need a remote network connection to the DUT. I already managed to implement this using an LXC container as part of a multinode job.

Example: Check whether a telnet server is running on the DUT.
Implementation:
* DUT and LXC are deployed and booted as two roles in a multinode job
* DUT sends its IP address to LXC via the multinode API (lava-send) and then waits for a signal (lava-wait)
* LXC reads the IP address (lava-wait, lava_multi_node_cache.txt), tries a telnet connection to DUT (lava-test-case) and then sends a signal to DUT (lava-send)
* DUT and LXC are shut down

Now I read that LXC containers can be used in a singlenode job context as well, using the "namespace" attribute. I tried this and got the LXC container running along with my DUT, without the need of a multinode job. However, the multinode API cannot be used in this case, obviously. Is there another possibility to submit the DUT's IP address to the LXC?