netdev - Re: [Patch net] macvlan: add NETIF_F_NETNS

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Date:	Mon, 10 Feb 2014 20:15:20 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Cc:	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>,
	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [Patch net] macvlan: add NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL flag

On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 03:40 +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:

> Setting up a macvlan and moving it into another namespace without moving
> the parent device is a nice feature. I am not an administrator, so I don't
> use that stuff often, but given you can easily spawn namespaces and put
> applications into them, one of the easiest things to connect those to
> local network without routing over veth and such is the macvlan interface.

Exactly.


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