netdev - Re: [PATCH][NETNS] Make ifindex generation per-namespace

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Message-Id: <20071009.131211.85410709.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:12:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dlstevens@...ibm.com
Cc:	xemul@...nvz.org, devel@...nvz.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][NETNS] Make ifindex generation per-namespace

From: David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 09:18:25 -0700

> Ifindex's have to uniquely identify the interface (virtual or
> otherwise) to remote queriers (not just local applications), so
> unless you pay the price of separating all the SNMP MIBs per
> namespace too, it seems you'll need some way to remap these for SNMP
> queries, right?

I don't see how it can work even with per-namespace MIBs,
the interface indexes have to be unique per "system".


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