netdev - Re: Network namespace and tc?

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Date:	Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:37:25 +0100
From:	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>
To:	"Denis V. Lunev" <den@...nvz.org>
CC:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Network namespace and tc?

Denis V. Lunev wrote:
> Hello, Stephen!
> 
> Namespaces are not fully implemented yet :) Right now we we have only
> basic infrastructure in the mainstream and, currently, we can't even run
> TCP in different namespace :( We hope this will be changed very soon.
> 
> These marks (net != &init_net) are used to
> - mark places we need to modify
> - ensure that we do not break initial namespace.
> 
> Regards,
> 	Den
> 
> On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 15:59 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> It looks like tc filter won't work on alternate namespaces:
>> /* Add/change/delete/get a filter node */
>>
>> static int tc_ctl_tfilter(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *n, void *arg)
>> {
>> ...
>>
>> 	if (net != &init_net)
>> 		return -EINVAL;
>>
>>
>> Haven't played with namespace virtualization yet, but what else is
>> not supported?  Where is this documented?

I wrote some documentation here:

http://lxc.sourceforge.net/network.php

That talk about configuration, bench, etc ...

Your question make me feel I should add a matrix with the current state 
of the network namespace, what is in, what is done but not merged yet, 
what is planned and what is not planned.

Thanks for paying attention at this.

   -- Daniel


















































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