I have made several linux containers using the normal userspace tools (not docker), and I have been setting up a test environment.

I want to set up two containers to try out heartbeat, which requires the containers to bind to and ip address that is not yet configured, namely net.ipv4.ip_nonlocal_bind=1

Everytime I try it, it says something like this:

user@lxc1:~$ sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_nonlocal_bind=1

sysctl: cannot stat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_nonlocal_bind: No such file or directory

Also modifying the sysctl.conf file doesnt help. So i did some research, and aparently the guest container binds to the host's /proc/sys (which makes sense), so i modified the hosts value by adding the proper value to the hosts sysctl.conf and then i rebooted the host for good measure:

user@host:~$ sudo sysctl -A | grep -i nonlocal

net.ipv4.ip_nonlocal_bind = 1

as noted above, the host reflects the configuration that i want to see the in guest container, but even after rebooting, the container -still- shows the same problem.

How do i modify these values in the guest container, is it even possible?