netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/6] netns: port linux-vrf features to network namespaces

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Date:	Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:03:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vivien.chappelier@...mson.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, benjamin.thery@...l.net,
	jleu@...dspring.com, linux-vrf-general@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] netns: port linux-vrf features to network
 namespaces

From: Vivien Chappelier <vivien.chappelier@...mson.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:35:56 +0100

>     The recently introduced network namespaces allow separate
>     standalone network stacks to coexist on the same machine. This
>     is a very useful functionality that we have been using in our
>     products for some time, through the VRF patchset
>     (http://linux-vrf.sourceforge.net/). The goal of the VRF
>     patchset and network namespaces are very similar, yet some
>     features of the VRF are missing that these patches intend to
>     provide.

I'll leave it up to the namespace folks to review this and decide whether
it makes sense to consider these changes seriously or not.
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