netdev - Re: recommended way to support duplicate IP addresses on different VLANs?

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Date:	Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:04:25 +0300
From:	"Rémi Denis-Courmont" <remi@...lab.net>
To:	Chris Friesen <cbf123@...l.usask.ca>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: recommended way to support duplicate IP addresses on different VLANs?

Le lundi 11 juillet 2011 17:58:14 Chris Friesen, vous avez écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> We've got a server that sits on multiple VLANs.  Each VLAN is segregated
> and doesn't know about the others.  The IP address ranges in each of the
> VLANs may overlap, and the server may be assigned the same IP address in
> multiple VLANs.
> 
> We've got a messy solution now involving unique internal addresses and
> NATing between those and the duplicate external addresses, but I'm
> wondering if there is a cleaner way to handle this.
> 
> It seems like network namespaces would work, but it would require
> multiple instances of our software which is a dealbreaker.
> 
> Is there any other way to deal with this scenario?

Namespace file descriptors if/when they get accepted.

Or then binding sockets to devices (SO_BINDTODEVICE) might work.

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