netdev - Re: Connection tracking and vlan

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Date:	Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:02:29 -0800
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Adayadil Thomas <adayadil.thomas@...il.com>,
	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Netfilter Development Mailinglist 
	<netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Connection tracking and vlan

Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> writes:

> Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> Patrick McHardy a écrit :
>>> But it would be preferrable if we could do this using network
>>> namespaces somehow.
>> 
>> eg eth0.100 and eth0.101 on namespace 1,  eth0.200 and eth0.201 on namespace 2 ?
>> 
>> Can we do that with current kernel ? (different vlans on an unique physical device)
>
> By default the underlying device needs to exist in the same namespace
> in which the VLAN device is created. I believe it should be possible
> to move the VLAN device to a different namespace after creating it,
> but I'm not sure about that.

There should be no problem moving the vlan device after it is created.

Eric

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