netdev - Re: [RFC] ipv4: add ICMP socket kind

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Message-ID: <20101222110318.GA6224@albatros>
Date:	Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:03:18 +0300
From:	Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
To:	Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
Cc:	Colin Walters <walters@...bum.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Pavel Kankovsky <peak@...o.troja.mff.cuni.cz>
Subject: Re: [RFC] ipv4: add ICMP socket kind

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 00:32 +0300, Solar Designer wrote:
> We use OpenVZ containers
> heavily, and we don't want to run an instance of such process per
> container (up to a few hundred per system).

Besides memory usage daemons cannot allocate reliably unique icmp echo
identifiers as they don't know anything about already assigned idents.


Thanks,

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Vasiliy Kulikov
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