netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/12] L2 network namespace (v3)

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Date:	Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:07:45 +0900 (JST)
From:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
To:	dim@...nvz.org
Cc:	containers@...ts.osdl.org, alexey@...ru, saw@...ru, akpm@...l.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/12] L2 network namespace (v3)

In article <200701171851.14734.dim@...nvz.org> (at Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:51:14 +0300), Dmitry Mishin <dim@...nvz.org> says:

> ===================================
> L2 network namespaces
> 
> The most straightforward concept of network virtualization is complete
> separation of namespaces, covering device list, routing tables, netfilter
> tables, socket hashes, and everything else.
> 
> On input path, each packet is tagged with namespace right from the
> place where it appears from a device, and is processed by each layer
> in the context of this namespace.
> Non-root namespaces communicate with the outside world in two ways: by
> owning hardware devices, or receiving packets forwarded them by their parent
> namespace via pass-through device.

Can you handle multicast / broadcast and IPv6, which are very important?

--yoshfuji
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