Connecting the devcontainer to the host network

[OmerAvra]

Anyone have an idea how to connect the devcontainer to the host network?

Running ICMP pig works fine locally

On linux, building a maing.go file and giving it setcap cap_net_raw=+ep also gets it to work but I am looking for a solutution for this on a container eventually..

Network is unreachable from within

tried a bunch of stuff including messing around with the devcontainer.json
e.g. runArgs": [
"--network=host",
]

[samruddhikhandale]

Hi 👋

The --network=host option should work on Linux, but it might not be enough if your application needs to use raw sockets or other privileged capabilities. You can try adding linux capabilities which will give the container the necessary privileges as well as you can try setting the privileged mode.

Here's how you can modify your devcontainer.json: 👇

{
    "image": "your-image-name",
    "privileged": true,
    "runArgs": ["--network", "host"],
    "capAdd": ["NET_RAW", "NET_ADMIN"]
}

Please note that these options increase the privileges of the container, which can have security implications. Make sure you understand the implications and trust the code running inside the container.