netdev - Re: [RFC net-next 0/3] Proposal for VRF-lite

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Message-ID: <5576AAD2.8010405@6wind.com>
Date:	Tue, 09 Jun 2015 10:58:58 +0200
From:	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
To:	Shrijeet Mukherjee <shm@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	hannes@...essinduktion.org, dsahern@...il.com,
	ebiederm@...ssion.com, hadi@...atatu.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	stephen@...workplumber.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
CC:	roopa@...ulusnetworks.com, gospo@...ulusnetworks.com,
	jtoppins@...ulusnetworks.com, nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 0/3] Proposal for VRF-lite

Le 08/06/2015 20:35, Shrijeet Mukherjee a écrit :
> From: Shrijeet Mukherjee <shm@...ulusnetworks.com>
>
> In the context of internet scale routing a requirement that always
> comes up is the need to partition the available routing tables into
> disjoint routing planes. A specific use case is the multi-tenancy
> problem where each tenant has their own unique routing tables and in
> the very least need different default gateways.
>
> This is an attempt to build the ability to create virtual router
> domains aka VRF's (VRF-lite to be specific) in the linux packet
> forwarding stack. The main observation is that through the use of
[snip]
>   drivers/net/vrf.c            |  654 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

I'm not really in favor of the name 'vrf'. This term is very controversial and
having a consensus of what is/contains a 'vrf' is quite impossible.
There was already a lot of discussions about this topic on quagga ml that show
that everybody has a different opinion about this term ;-)

I know you call this 'MRF' internally, why not using this name instead?


Regards,
Nicolas
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