linux-kernel - Re: Current state of Network Namespaces (NETNS, CLONE

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Date:	Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:50:19 +0300
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...glemail.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-man@...r.kernel.org,
	Subrata Modak <subrata@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, den@...nvz.org,
	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Current state of Network Namespaces (NETNS, CLONE_NEWNET)?

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 05:37:35PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...glemail.com> writes:
> 
> > Sorry for the shotgun mail, but in the end,  it's
> > not clear who can best answer my question(s).
> >
> > I'm currently trying to add documentation of all of
> > the undocumented CLONE_* flags.  One of these is
> > CLONE_NEWNET, and I could use (quite a lot of) help.  
> >
> > My questions:
> >
> > What is the current state of the network namespace 
> > implementation?  Is it complete?  
> 
> No.  It is fairly close though and there is general agreement
> on what it is.
> 
> ipv4 and ipv6 are mostly complete and useable.
> ip tables support is in progress.

iptables will be mostly complete in 2.6.28.
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