netdev - Re: RFC: netfilter: nf_conntrack: add support for "conntrack zones"

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Date:	Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:55:29 -0500
From:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Netfilter Development Mailinglist 
	<netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: netfilter: nf_conntrack: add support for "conntrack zones"

On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 12:46 -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> jamal <hadi@...erus.ca> writes:

> 
> This is one of the long standing issues that we have always known
> we needed to solve, but have not taken the time to do it.  Now that
> the need is more real it looks about time to solve this one.
> 
> There are currently two problems.
> 1) A process is needed to hold a reference to the network namespace.
> 2) We use pids which are an awkward way of talking about network
>    namespaces.
> 
> The solution I have been playing with involves.
> - Using a file descriptor to refer to a network namespace.
> - Using a trivial virtual filesystem to persistently hold onto
>   a namespace without the need of a process.
> - Have a convention of mounting the fs at something like
>   /var/run/netns/<name>
> 

I didnt quiet follow how i could use the above to do:
"ip ns <name/id> route add blah" from namespace0.

I tend to think in packets and wires instead of files;
How about just allowing a "control" channel from which
i could discover the namespace?
Example, assuming i have the right permissions:
1) listen to async events example on a multicast bus when
a namespace is created or destroyed. Provide me a little more info on
the created namespace such as its pid, name(?), types of namespace, etc
2) send a query to dump existing namespace or query by name, id etc.
I get the same details as above.

using genetlink should provide you with sufficient ability to do this.

cheers,
jamal

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